Nice update, don't have cichlids personally but love the look and colors they offer

Sorry to hear about your fish loses, good luck with the tank, hope everything works out=)

Nice setup, i'm looking to setup something similar, just starting. Good Job!

Awesome scape

Green sunfishes are the most aggressive. according to my experience, there are no greenies in this tank...

@savagebiker1879

2 жыл бұрын

I find that longear Sunfish can be more aggressive than greenies sometimes

Thanks.

Nice....strange I can’t see much sunfish videos on KZread... what temps do you keep them at?

@Day5Aquatics

5 жыл бұрын

I had these in a tank in my office. The temp stayed consistently around 70-72 year round.

The largest one should be removed and the smaller ones kept awhile since they are similar in size. That would probably end the aggression. In ponds it isn't a big problem because the smaller ones have an entire pond to move to when chased. Here they are basically stuck, being stressed out by the big one all day, with nowhere to go. What type of fish are the long skinny ones?

@Day5Aquatics

7 жыл бұрын

+HighlanderNorth1 I had a number of problems in this tank. Most of them were the result of poor planning and not enough structure. I've actually changed this tank around a few times and just recently went back to keeping longears. The skinny fish in the video are creek chubs. Not very colorful but fun to feed. They swim like torpedoes. If you want I'm going to be making another video this week of my new longear tank and I'll explain why this time around it will be different. Thanks for the input and thanks for watching.

Huge question what are the long fish called at first I thought grass carp I have 3 of them but have no idea what they are called

@Day5Aquatics

6 жыл бұрын

Downtown Ubah creek chubs

Hey men awesome tank! Are those sunfish regular? I Have catch 2 and put them in my pound but I didn't know they get that big lol? Btw what can you do about yellow glare in the water I have recently put a big peace of driftwood in it :0! I did first put it under the hot water and the men where I did get it from said that he had cooked it out recently :)

@Day5Aquatics

10 жыл бұрын

These are longear sunfish. They don't get near as big as bluegill do. These only reach a max size of 6-8 inches (15-20cm). As far as the yellow water, that's from the tannins that leech out of the driftwood. That'll just take some time and water changes to get that out. Eventually it will stop leeching and the color will go back to normal. In this tank, that big piece of driftwood on the right side took a while. I actually soaked it in a tub for several months before putting it in my tank. It's still not completely water logged though, it had to be screwed into a piece of stone to completely sink, and it still leeched some tannins into the water when I first put it in. Also, the color temp of your lights can have something to do with the tinting of your tanks color. Color temps affect which colors get highlighted in your tank. I just put an actinic light on this tank to bring out the blues in the sunfish.

@mbdz

10 жыл бұрын

Wow that is realy cool men ⊙_⊙! I was in the France and i catch the sunfish with some cheese lol :p but thats not the One you have richt? They are uhm light green and little red en blue spots on the side! And thanks for the tips men ;0! Yeah I did some water changing and it's clear right now! But the normal light of my juwel tank are like yellow! And I still have that yellow like glow! But it's maybe my lights? I wanna have some good blue lights to show more colors do you know a good label of lights that you use maybe because my green terror Wil be looking awesome then btw thanks for the help men you are helping me realy out ;0!

@Day5Aquatics

10 жыл бұрын

Matje De Zeeuw It's all about color temperature with the lights. I don't know what's available in Europe. Anything 10,000k or higher will have the bluish tint to it. If you want to grow plants, look for something that is around 6500k. If you have a yellow tint, I think your lights are somewhere below 6500k. I'm not sure the exact temp range for yellow but if you want the blue look for 10,000k lights or higher. That's where you'll get the bluer tints.

@mbdz

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks men i have now yellow lights nature and 1 day the nature are for the plants to grow but I have fake plants because I am afraid that my 2 greenterrors&2 firemouthchiclids& 2 convictchiclids& 3flowerhorns&5 blue dolphin chiclids&green severums 2 red heads & 2 schelchiclids :) all not bigger then 10inches are gonna destroy the plants and what kind of sand do you use? what kind of plants can I try??. :D

@Day5Aquatics

10 жыл бұрын

Matje De Zeeuw With those fish the only plants you might be able to use are probably anubias plants. They don't require any special lighting so you can use whatever lights you want and they'll still do fine. Anubias are really slow growing plants but they have thick leaves so they may be ok. If I were you I would get lights that would accent the fish colors. Get the bright white bulbs or something with a hint of blue in them. I don't know if you can get these there but Finnex Monster Ray led lights are made to bring out the color in your fish. Check out Dahlyvh's channel to see those lights on his discus.

Super glue some pieces of slate to the bottom of the wood

My bluegill keep chasing each other

Are they jumpers? Do I have to cover the lid?

@Day5Aquatics

Жыл бұрын

They will jump. You would need a lid. I’ve lost a few from jumping even with having a lid.

@MrWanchaleom

Жыл бұрын

@@Day5Aquatics Thank you!

Dude how do you differentiate the genders of a longear on a visual basis ?

@Day5Aquatics

3 жыл бұрын

When they’re mature it’s really easy, the females have a much duller color pattern. The males get larger and have a larger opercular flap.

@arindamscacichlids7113

3 жыл бұрын

@@Day5Aquatics yes i've read about that. I want to know at what approximate size they mature up ?

Nive video but they look like pumpkin seed sunfish rather than green sunfish

@Day5Aquatics

2 жыл бұрын

These are longear sunfish

@Day5Aquatics

2 жыл бұрын

The green sunfish was the one I removed from the tank.

@yd3021

2 жыл бұрын

@@Day5Aquatics you are right