I have a bunch of chocolates, my favorite smaller cichlid by far. I have three pairs that breed often, think I have 18 of them, I recently lost 5 due to columnaris in the 220.
Post your chocolates!
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I have 9 in the 265, the one pair run the tank but usually don't mess with anyone unless they invade their space I created for them which has a piece of slate on the bottom and a big piece of wood around them, but those loaches slip in and out and the plecos just don't care. I used to have two true parrots, but they were pretty big and the bull chocolate would always go after him and didn't want either to get hurt to traded the parrots for more chocolates. I will have to post some more photos of them later tonight.
The colorful one is the female, she is almost always brightly colored up so she takes some good photos.
The colorful one is the female, she is almost always brightly colored up so she takes some good photos.
I have heard of several ways but the best way is either to vent or toss a bunch in together and see what pairs up. I have heard about fins being longer on one than the other but my three pairs are all different, eye coloration is different and even the I guess you can say mini nuchal hump, the female has a big bulge between her eyes while the male doesn't. I don't think there is a 100% for sure ID by visual if you ask me, venting and letting them pair up is the best way that I'm aware of.
All your chocolates look great. I think they are my favorite cichlid, they have just a great temperament especially for a community tank. I'm not allowed to post links yet so I'll tell you how you can find mine on youtube if you type in "community tank choclate, oaxaca cichlid" it will be the first video you come across. If you stick around until the end of my stupid minute long video you get a nice shot of him.
Can't really see too wel in that video not that clear
But from what I can see it's pretty beefy and looks good maybe take some pics n post when you can
