How To Take Care Of Cichlids

The cichlid fish has a multi-hued exterior, which makes them a marvelous collection to own. It is not too much complicated to take care of Cichlid fish. However, there are certain requirements for them to get healthy and the needs should be followed accordingly for cichlid’s proper care.
Cichlids usually appear from Africa, though they can be found in South and Central America as well. You can found cichlids in various kinds of waters, to name a few, lakes, ponds, or rivers. You will have a variety of cichlid fish with different species and of motley colors.

Now there are some instructions for you how to take care of your cichlid fish. You must put some places in the fish tank for your cichlid fish to hide. You can arrange some rock cave for make a place for your cichlid to hide. You should not put plants in the fish tank, if you have a huge species of cichlids, as they are likely to excavate substrate substances. Other species, such as the angelfish and discus have a preference of a planted fish tank.

Usually cichlids prefer the water temperature to be in the mid seventies. The Discus species of cichlids like a bit higher temperatures than the other species. However, the fastening food of your cichlid's diet should be a large flake food, but you can feed your cichlid various types of live and cold foods as well. You can feed your cichlid earthworms and crickets, if it has grown bigger. Large cichlids must be kept with fish of the same size or bigger. Do not keep any large cichlid with a small fish as they can eat the smaller fish.

Cichlids are very defensive about themselves, which sometimes makes them violent. You have to take a good care of it, and have to watch carefully in the fish tank. If you possess a mating pair of cichlids in your tank, then you have to be well aware of them, as most of the time the male one pushes away the female one after the mating. That is why you need to put some place for the female fish to hide; otherwise, she might be killed by the male cichlid. As the cichlids are so furious, so you must keep some larger and more powerful fish only with it, which can be able to fight cichlids.

Cichlids can be kept in a community tank even, if you cautiously choose the other fish. Dwarf cichlids can be kept collectively without difficulty with some schooling fish like Characins. If you put some cichlids together in a tank, then ensure that there is sufficient place for them to dwell and declare their own province.

If you make a decision to keep a variety of cichlids, you must understand that there are two different kinds of breeders. One kind is Substrate brooders, who lay eggs out in the open on an exterior or concealed in a hollow space. They will fan the eggs for supplying oxygen and after they are born, the parents will take care of the infant until they grow larger and start free swimming. The parents will be tremendously violent and protective about the baby fish when it is growing. Another kind of breeder is called Mouth brooder. They put the eggs and larvae in their mouths. They continue to put them in their mouths until the young are free to swim. Cichlids are amusing fish to possess. There is a variety of cichlids and some of their colors are eye-catching. You should do a good research about cichlids before you are going to get them for your fish tank.