What's the first cichlid you ever owned ?

[Runitis]

Blue acara!!

 

[linh903]

a flowerhorn, killed all my fish

 

[Sonny503]

convicts! after owning them, I bred them every spring for the next 5 years. lol...

 

[love The Jack Dempseys]

i had a jack and a green terror in a 40 tall for like 4 years and they just died out of the blue, i was like 10. I was so sad and when i got bback in the hobby i got another JD and an EBJD

 

[dreysthename]

i got tricked into buying a 30 gallon tank and 2 oscars... they lived in that thing until they broke it. had to make a makeshift concrete pond for them as i couldn't afford to buy a tank. I was 9, 20yrs of fishkeeping flew by so fast.

 

[Chrisplosion]

A Blood Parrot that I still own to this day.

 

[Angler]

Firemouth.

 

[burzumaske20]

Oscar.

 

[KickAssLardNinja]

Jack Dempsey Cichlid.

 

[ToeB]

I took over a friends 20gal w/ a young convict and a baby dempsey. They outgrew the tank in about two months and went into a 75 followed by a 125.