Here are links to the foods I use with apistos: Xtreme Krill Flakes - geni.us/iTAWsN and Xtreme Nice Pellets - geni.us/6ADcc

This is the video I've been looking for. I'm soon going to start a 75 gal tank, and I wanted to base it on dwarf cichlids. I want a busy community tank, but also the personality of cichlids. This is the only one of many videos that give clear options. Thanks for a great starting point.

@CichlidBros

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Cheers! Bro As always with a good video of Cichlids 🐟 🐡 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

@CichlidBros

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Awesome list. I was wondering if they could kept with neon tetras. Thanks for answering that question.

Thanks cichlids bro's thanks for the great help ideas I'm thinking to set up a 55 gallons tank with those gorgeous beautiful fish 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼❤❤

Great video Bro! 👍

@CichlidBros

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@_invertico_

Жыл бұрын

@@CichlidBros keep up the work bro!

@76bently

Жыл бұрын

That's CichlidBro to you 😉

Personally, I keep my apistogramma in a large community aquarium, they are very beautiful and interesting fish

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Nice set up , great information , cute host. Good job 😂

@CichlidBros

Жыл бұрын

Haha thank you!

@taylormayfire574

Жыл бұрын

@@CichlidBros your very welcome lol 😊

I keep Apistogramma macmasteri with Ember tetra, Corydotas panda and Hatchet fish and they do so good

@CichlidBros

Жыл бұрын

Very nice!

Very inspiring video bros❤❤❤⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🤟🤟💥💥👊👊💪💪🔥🔥🏆👑

@CichlidBros

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! 👊🏻👊🏻

Love your videos lots of info and great tank creations. I have a question? I have a 75 gallon bichirs tank love it. I just got a 30 gallon breeder and both dwarf chiclids love it! I am waiting on a 55 gallon tank and want a non common fish want something exotic something you don't see all the usual pet store. Want so.e suggestions. I want to make it look like a wow I haven't seen these fish before. I was thinking lung fish or wolf fish but not sure tank mates just an idea. No oscars to common and too big.

Hey, I've kind of fallen in love with the Apistogramma viejita gold and would like to breed them. But I also love orange Oryzias latipes. Would they be okay as tankmates?

Setting up a 20 gallon high in my home office as I watch this. Current stocking idea is a pair of Agassizii, 7 neons and a trio of fancy guppies. Fortunately the only fish I have to buy for this tank are the neons.

Thanks for this video. I just bought an 80 gallon and let my twins pick their favorite shoaling fish - cardinals and black phantom tetras- but I get to plan the rest. Can you tell me the scientific name of the apistogrammas that are mostly blue and green? Any opinion on how apistos do with neo cherry shrimp? Thanks

I wish my local fish stores had them , same with Geophagis

Great vid as always, as someone that has always kept bigger tanks and bigger fish like Oscar’s and Jack Dempsey s , I’m really wanting to get a medium to large tank with many smaller fish than one or two big ones and I’m just starting to do my due diligence and research the smaller fish and the apistos , I don’t know a ton about them and never kept them before but I’m thinking about a planted 75 with a pair or two would that work?

@christianjones1834

Жыл бұрын

You and I are thinking the same thing lol Been thinking South American for sure and I’m deciding between 4-6 apistos and 4-6 Bolivian rams no idea which way I’ll lean

I’ve been planning a planted community tank in my 40gal breeder and have been on forums for some advice and this is what I’ve been recommended: 1 female apisto, 3 honey gourami, 1 female pearl, opaline or powder blue gourami (whichever I can find but I’ve been told pearl gouramis are more peaceful), 10 neon tetras, 5-6 emperor tetras and 6 panda corydoras. Is this over stocked or are they not compatible? Also these are my tank info and parameters; Ph- 7.0-7.6 (more like 7.2) Ammonia- 0-0.25ppm Nitrite: 0ppm Nitrate: 5-10ppm I also have rock hides for an apisto if they are compatible and over 10 species of live plants, drift wood, stratum substrate, black sand and rocks (not hides). I don’t plan on buying fish for another month or so to get my plants to grow into the tank since they’re new and haven’t anchored or rooted around the rocks and wood or into the substrate. Any and all criticism, help and advice is welcome ❤

Kribensis would they eat cardinal tetras or Chilli rasboras or galaxy rasboras ?

Would a pair work with a severum, 2 eba, and 2 sveni in a 75?

I have 2 females and 1 male in a sand tank with live plants and bog wood they see happy should i add ottos ? Or corries ? Tia.

I got apistogramma cacatuoides yesterday with mom on Saturday

@CichlidBros

2 ай бұрын

Very nice 👍🏻

How about a 65g tank with 6 corries and 6 rummies ? Im thinking of 1 make wuth 3 females . Thoughts please , tia. 🙏 ❤

I enjoyed the video and learned exactly what I wanted to know… however being in the market for a pair of Apistogrammas is not easy… gonna have to be mail order, please recommend a site that has a good selection, if you can…my 29 gallon is planted with rocks and sand and my marble veiled angelfish along with the speckled Cory’s and they are screaming for tank mates… thanks yall…

They look like little sharks playing in the sand. So cute!

With big tetras, treat em like Tiger barbs. They are no where near as aggressive obviously but they do like being in large groups I would say 15+

Beautiful fish! Would acara do well with them in a 55 gal?

if housing dwarf flag cichlid with a pair of apistos how many and what sex of flag cichlids would you add in a 55gal?

Sir can I keep a pair of apistos,neon tetras and a wild betta in a densely decorated Black water 20 gallon ecosystem?

I have my apistos in a 75 with some electric blue acara and rainbow fish. They seem to do really well together.

@CichlidBros

Жыл бұрын

Very nice

i have 3 plecos about 3 inches each in a 20g high (60x40x40cm) im about to pick up a pair of Apisto Cacatuoides T Red. Was not sure if the plecos would be ok. but glad i saw this video and feel better

@kimyungill2149

3 ай бұрын

How do your pair of apisto doing in that tank? I want to buy a tank like yours and wondering if apisto would be happy with those measurements

@splitsec6760

2 ай бұрын

@@kimyungill2149 so far so good... all 5 of them doing well with medium heavy planted tank with lots of rocks wood and of course plants

I am thinking about getting me a 15g tank I don't have Room in my apartment for a 20g I got a Batt and in a 5g I just wanted to keep my Batt and like to put Apistogamma with my Batt in tougher can you help me with this

How do you feel about rummy nose tetras schooling with the Apistogramma

@CichlidBros

Жыл бұрын

Would probably work well

The only issue with the list is the Denison barbs and rainbowfish only because they are so active and at feeding time, they might not allow enough food for the apisto imo great list overall 🙂👍🏻

What about Bolivian rams and apistos? I’ve heard Bolivians don’t have to have as high of temps as German blue rams

Perfect timing…… i just set up a fluval flex. 32 gallon. With some apistos….. wanted to see. What other fish 🐠 i could put in ✅👋

@CichlidBros

Жыл бұрын

Awesome. Glad it’s helpful!

@kimyungill2149

3 ай бұрын

How did they live in that tank? I want a nano tank and thinking of apistoa

What type do you have?

Would they be happy in a 30gal corner tank? Are these one of the community cichlids that you can have a planted tank with?

@CichlidBros

Жыл бұрын

Yep!

@laylagordon2048

Жыл бұрын

@@CichlidBros sweet!!! I have one I've been trying to figure out what to do with.

Do apistos need schooling fish above them ? Tia

@CichlidBros

Жыл бұрын

They don’t need it, but it does seem to make them more comfortable/come out of hiding

Could there be problems with apistos and bolivian rams?

@CichlidBros

3 ай бұрын

Usually they’re fine together

Is it possible to put a dwarf gourami? Or a honey gourami?

@CichlidBros

9 ай бұрын

Should be fine

How about rummy nose tetras?

@CichlidBros

Жыл бұрын

Yep would likely work well

I’ve heard of issues with Corydora and Apisto. I have some albino Cory’s I’m moving to a heavily planted 36 gallon. I really want apistos but they fear they will clash.

@CichlidBros

11 ай бұрын

Shouldn’t be an issue

@SpencerJ289

11 ай бұрын

@@CichlidBros even if I had a breeding pair of apisto?

@IrishJam93

5 ай бұрын

@@SpencerJ289can be a problem. Otos are better

I have a 75 gal with neon tetras, harlequins, chili rasboras,green rasboras, Cory's, pygmy Cory's, a pea puffer and a betta. You guys think an apisto will be ok?

@_invertico_

Жыл бұрын

Probably not because the apistos can be quite aggressive and it will be overstocked.

@zafishguy5166

Жыл бұрын

How many of the smaller fish? Also with a pea puffer no. Also maybe get the pea puffer or betta out of there. That usually doesn't work long term. Either remove the pea puffer or the Betta. If you want an apistogramma remove both. The odds that the pea puffer nips an appistos fins are high in my experience.

@zafishguy5166

Жыл бұрын

If it were my tank I'd remove the betta asap because that setup isnt ideal for it with all the busy fish and the pea puffer.

@zafishguy5166

Жыл бұрын

Also chili rasboras are very tiny so maybe don't keep those with a larger apisto as well.

@fishyabish9557

Жыл бұрын

@Za Fish Guy ok cool I was mainly worried bout my small fish getting eaten. The pea puffer and betta get along great been together for a long time

Can you keep Apistogramma with Blue Ram

@matteo6481

Жыл бұрын

Depends on how big the tank is because they all need their own space and territory

@germanminicucci5525

Жыл бұрын

I have 2 blue rams and a cockatoo apisto in a 29g... they get along but only because they have different sections, heavy planted, they're territorial but they're not aggresive.

Can i put like 30 dwarf cichlid species together?

@CichlidBros

10 ай бұрын

Yep, in a decent sized tank it would work

@didogobiusbentuvii

10 ай бұрын

@@CichlidBros awesome !!

Hi

@CichlidBros

9 ай бұрын

👋🏼

Maybe you should include the latin names too?

@IrishJam93

5 ай бұрын

Why? We can identify them by the common name. Plus, it’s more memorable. If you want the Latin name, Google is your friend

@kasperkjrsgaard1447

5 ай бұрын

@@IrishJam93 Common names are different from country to country, sometimes from the east coast to the west, from shop to shop. The latin names are the same all over the world.

@IrishJam93

5 ай бұрын

@@kasperkjrsgaard1447 fair enough, that makes sense

Be great if you answered questions here. 😢

From my opinion, aquarium mates should be from from same native area. 😃

Y does he say harlequin so wrong 😂

@CichlidBros

2 ай бұрын

Actually the correct pronunciation 🤷🏻‍♂️

I don’t think it is correct to just say apistogramma’s can be generalized like you are saying. Maybe I don’t know what I am talking about but some Apistos can be hell on wheels, but most are generally peaceful. Maybe if you made it more clear which Apistos you where talking about it would not seem so troubling. I am not trying to be negative, I am just unclear on your parameters within the subject.

@CichlidBros

Жыл бұрын

If it wasn’t generalized, the video would be an hour long. There also aren’t that many nuances between types. The list applies to all apistos

@slaggs4633

Жыл бұрын

@@CichlidBros what about Hongsloi or Cockatoo. They are a bit more aggressive and have actually lost fish to both before. Also, don’t put your Rams with them, they lose every time. That is just my experience. I would not want anyone newer to these fish to come across these same bad experiences that I have had.

@CichlidBros

Жыл бұрын

@@slaggs4633yeah I would say the list would still apply to those. With all cichlids, there’s always a chance to have an aggressive one, but generally speaking all apistos will be relatively peaceful. Some tips to reduce aggression can be found here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/i4KDw9V_dt3Vl9o.html

@slaggs4633

Жыл бұрын

@@CichlidBros Thank you for the feedback. I appreciate you guys and the accessibility for dialogue. I am by no means a veteran fish keeper, but I love the culture of this hobby to always be learning. There is never just one way for anything, I love that.