http://amzn.to/2ytY0pO - This is the food I feed my larger cichlids like Jack Dempsey cichlids. It’s a larger size stick instead of pellet.
Freeze Dried Brine Cubes: http://amzn.to/2yZFNkd
Hikari Large Food Stick: http://amzn.to/2ytY0pO
I love jack Dempsey cichlids. Taking care of them isn't very hard! I made this video to help with deciding tank Mates and also thinking about their full grown size.
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Can be aggressive. Best kept in overstocked tanks with high quality filteration. They have really nice colors.
https://youtu.be/fazKkPrgpB4
We have a jewel cichlid and it's our second one and he is just plain mean. We are trying to figure out what we can get. Can we keep peacocks with oscar fish and other South American cichlids??? Cause we are thinking of exchanging our jewel for a peacock.
Oh ok. Yeah if you keep African cichlids when not in big groups your looking for trouble. Best kept in at least 55 gallons overstocked. African cichlids should be kept with African. And south Americans kept with south american. Simple as that. They both come from different waters with different ph.
We have a 75.... the fish we got are all babies. So they are no bigger then 2.5 inches.... we are planning on getting a much larger tank sometime in the future once they start growing.
In regards to temperament, its always easier to use a relative scale such as more aggressive or less aggressive than another fish. Compared to jewels most (not all, need the specific species) peacocks are less aggressive.
In this instance it is irrelevant, since peacocks want Very different water conditions than south american cichlids.
The ones I have kept have been less jerks than the dragons, but I always kept my peacocks with a lots of other peacocks. jewels have little man syndrome and always try to start crap. African Lake cichlids need hard alkaline waters. South American cichlids tend to need softer water. Though South American cichlids are generally speaking more adaptable to being in slightly harder water. Jewel Cichlids are from western Africa and are also more adaptable to water conditions than the lake Cichlids like Peacocks.
Jack Dempsey, midas, Red Devils, green terrors, blue acaras, severums. List goes on. All show nice color. All aggressive end of the spectrum so some risk mixing anything. Cichlasoma festae can be good, but can get mean.cichlasoma temporalisare cool imo, Vieja synspila.
Just remember when mixing large aggressive south american cichlids things can go south, so watch closely in the beginning or set up a barrier to let everyone get used to each other. My "big" cichlid (did africans and south americans at separate times) tank was a 200 gallon RR, but I did frequent large water changes with aged water to maintain water quality.
IF you want to mix big nasties, now is the time to do it. I would strongly advise against feeding feeder fish, it always seemed like the fish I used feeders with were more aggressive than those raised on pellets, flake, and frozen.
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