Electric Yellow Cichlid

[shortd81]

I would like to know info on this fish on the following subjects.

-How hard is it to breed this fish?
-How many can I have in a 10gallon tank?
-And ne other information you might have especailly sexing the male/female thanks.

 

[cichlidmaster]

How hard is it to breed this fish?

It's not hard at all providing you have males and females.

-How many can I have in a 10gallon tank?

NONE!!!! A ten gallon tank is way to small. A 29 gallon tank (30x12x16) is the smallest tank you should have for a group of these.

 

[shortd81]

How hard is it to breed this fish?

It's not hard at all providing you have males and females.

-How many can I have in a 10gallon tank?

NONE!!!! A ten gallon tank is way to small. A 29 gallon tank (30x12x16) is the smallest tank you should have for a group of these.

Ok but how can you sex them? And what should I feed them? How much does a tank that size cost? lol sorry for all the questions.

 

[joshua]

maybe u may wanna keep kribs? they get very colourful during spawning season and aren't too aggressive

 

[juanveldez]

they are very easy to breed you will see that males are much brighter than females they also have more black and are just plain bigger than fremales. as for feeding any good mostly vegtable based pellet or crumbs with a treat of frozen foods like blood worms but only once a week or less.

 

[OscarCichlid]

I payed $100 for my 29 Gallon Tank. I bought it at Wal-Mart and it came with a heater, an aquaclear 200, a hood, a light, and gravel. I bought a backround and decorations sepratly. It cost me about $150 total.

 

[juanveldez]

another thing to remember is that these fish need lots of rock caves. there is a pic (although not that good) of my 75 gallon tank that I have 5 electric yellows in

 

[thecichlidaddict]

Labidochromis Caeruleus does [/B]not need a vegetable based food. These fish are not like most other mbuna - they are stricly micropredetors and insectivores, and their diet is very similar to Aulonocara. When you see them grazing algae they are not eating it, they are just looking for food within it.

If you are short on cash, I see 30 gallon setups for sale used all the time, for around a hundred bucks you should be able to get a full setup. I know that I don't have the cash to buy new setups, and I've had good luck with used ones.

 

[Adrinal]

I've never had these yellow rabbits not breed. I've even raised their fry to find out it was another africans kids!!! Be sure you want to breeed and have an air pump / tank salt and a few pepsie bottles laying around for the raising of shrimp for the fry (only for a few days and you can crush the heck out of your flake food)
the yellows dance quite well.
One thing is that they get beat up by most other africans of the same size.

I kept the male and female in a ten gal. tank with their brood recently. neither mom or pop bothered the three sets of babbys. But, mom bit pops eye out.
(grew back looking fine btw and supprisingly it seems to even be working).
point 10g no no no.. 20 long perhaps if you neerly divide the center and put plenty of rocks.

I have a 75 with a fair amount of rocks and plastic weeds, and I'd say thats cutting it. (but mine is a room divider so only one small "back" wall

55 gal will work fine too.( nice long shape for running)

Make sure you have a 10 gal running on the side for beat up fish and to put moma (or perhaps pops) after they are starving from keeping fry in the mouth.
one little castle/cotage ornament has always worked for me. They stay in there and you will only see a little head poking out to see what you are up too.

Some guppy holders in the main tank work fine as well if you dont have the space.

Funny thing is that once they get accustome to these (esp if you have more agressive africans in there) they might not want to leave. You can leave the top off and one side down. They will jump out to feed and run back into the holding tank for about a week.

fun stuff those yellows

 

[proteque]

Some things to help them on their way is to keep the water temperature about 26C, medium hard water and ph around 8. A safe bet is to have many (3-4) females and one male.

To seperate the sex is hard on small fishes. The female gets bigger than the male and the female have some small spots on the tailfinn.

Remember lots of stones with caves etc. They allso like find sand more than grain. Some plants to separate the territory if you have a big tank with more than one male.