Live and learn. Now you kind of understand that these fish are somewhat of a specialty breed and they require a higher level of care than most in the hobby care to commit to. Even more so when they are juveniles. If youre gonna keep cichla, youre gonna lose some. Sorry for your loss. If nothing else you learned a little more about the game. Losing a rare or prized cichla is where you meet that fork in the road that all cichla keepers face. Do you go down the easy path and go back to keeping tetras and neons, or do you lace your boots tighter and face it again?
In other words, do you take the blue pill, or the red pill?
