Thanks for your infoPretty much all African Cichlids will eat plants but it depends what type of plants you have, and they'll probably uproot them.
All African Cichlids would be aggressive, and most need a 55 Gallon tank at the minimum. Some shell dwellers don't but they're still aggressive.
With African Cichlids you don't want to get a pair because the male is too aggressive trying to mate and will beat the female to death if there's only one, if you want them to breed you should get a one male to at least 3 female ratio.
To get Africans to spawn you just have to put a mature male in a tank with mature females and wait.
I'd suggest you don't get African Cichlids because they're too aggressive for your tank-mates. and if you are going to try Africans DON'T GET MBUNAS they're the most aggressive type of Africans and they need a 55 Gallon tank minimum to be happy.
You could probably breed an Angelfish pair in that tank.
If you still want to keep Africans go to Kgtropicals on youtube, he has a great channel and has tons of info on African Cichlids. He also has a 7 video series on breeding angelfish that's really informative.
so far my mbuna's have not touched my plants.. i have amazon swords, crypts, melon swords and Alternanthera reineckii 'Mini in my 75 gal.Pretty much all African Cichlids will eat plants but it depends what type of plants you have, and they'll probably uproot them.
All African Cichlids would be aggressive, and most need a 55 Gallon tank at the minimum. Some shell dwellers don't but they're still aggressive.
With African Cichlids you don't want to get a pair because the male is too aggressive trying to mate and will beat the female to death if there's only one, if you want them to breed you should get a one male to at least 3 female ratio.
To get Africans to spawn you just have to put a mature male in a tank with mature females and wait.
I'd suggest you don't get African Cichlids because they're too aggressive for your tank-mates. and if you are going to try Africans DON'T GET MBUNAS they're the most aggressive type of Africans and they need a 55 Gallon tank minimum to be happy.
You could probably breed an Angelfish pair in that tank.
If you still want to keep Africans go to Kgtropicals on youtube, he has a great channel and has tons of info on African Cichlids. He also has a 7 video series on breeding angelfish that's really informative.
My mbuna's did not bother any plants for several months one of my favorite and oldest plants a indian red sword I accidentally ripped a leaf vacuuming so the fish got a taste of the plant and shredded that thing in a day, other than that no plant issues.so far my mbuna's have not touched my plants.. i have amazon swords, crypts, melon swords and Alternanthera reineckii 'Mini in my 75 gal.
It probably helps that I feed them nori and soilent green on a rock for them to graze onMy mbuna's did not bother any plants for several months one of my favorite and oldest plants a indian red sword I accidentally ripped a leaf vacuuming so the fish got a taste of the plant and shredded that thing in a day, other than that no plant issues.
I just got my 1st F1 pair wild caught there in there own tank its amazing how much more brilliant and lively colorful this wild fish is compared to my other commercial raised healthy fish
You are just grasping.Many up to date book's out there,just need to look.The bigest mistake I find on information about African cichlids is that they are sometimes written about as if they were all cut from the same mold. It would be the same as saying all Central or South American cichlids are the same. It is just not logical to say that an angelfish and an Oscar will do the same things so why is it logical to say all African cichlids are the same? In fact, when we look at the African cichlids it is even less logical for them. Since they are so much more adapted to fit very specific niches in the lake, for them to all be spoken of as doing the same is really just a lack of knowledge.
There are mbuna who eat algae. There are mbuna who comb algae looking for micro organisms to eat and are not at all interested in eating algae. There are African cichlids who hide in and under rocks and there are those who live in huge schools out in the open water where they rarely go near a rock. Some are territorial and some who are not.
If they are 9 inch fish living on bugs and in open water, they will not act the same as a one inch fish living in a shell.
Choosing an African cichlid is just the same as choosing any fish. You just have to find reliable information. But there is one further complication. A smaller percentage of the written iformation on African cichlids is correct. Much of it was written in the days of Axelrod and that info is still being copied and passed on.