Who do cichlids live with in an aquarium?

Variety

Aquarium plants

Compatibility with other fish

Cichlazoma Meek

It is advisable to plant large plants with hard leaves: anubias, echinodorus.

They get along with akars, scalars. They are at enmity with Astronotus, as they are larger and more aggressive.

Eight-striped cichlazoma (bee cichlazoma)

Echinodorus and Anubias.

Any small fish will become prey for them, therefore it is recommended to settle them with large ones: plexomus, black pacu, brocade pterygoplicht.

Tsikhlazoma severum

It is recommended to plant plants with strong roots and hard leaves, as well as those that grow quickly - Vallisneria, Cryptocorynes.

Severum can get along with catfish, astronotuses. But the neighborhood with a small fish like a guppy, neon is fraught with death for the latter.

Astronotus

These fish are very fond of spoiling green spaces. That is why it is recommended to put stones, heavy driftwood, clay shards in the aquarium to the astronotuses, but not to plant plants. For decorative purposes, you can use artificial ones.

They are tolerant of representatives of cichlids (if only those are not smaller in size). Any small, slow-swimming fish are eaten.

Variety

Aquarium plants

Compatibility with other fish

Apistogram Ramirezi (butterfly cichlid)

It differs from its congeners in that it does not touch vegetation and does not dig into the ground. Therefore, you can plant water moss, fern, vallisneria, echinodorus and other plants.

Non-aggressive fish. It can calmly coexist with black mollies, guppies, swordtails, neons, rhodostomuses, and platies. Cannot be kept together with other cichlids, catfish, goldfish.

Parrot

It is recommended to plant hornwort for water purification and filtration. It is advisable to strengthen the root system with pebbles so that the parrot cannot dig up the plant.

Tolerant to most fish similar in size. Recommended neighbors: Congo, swordtails, black mollies, Sumatran barbs.

Chromis handsome

Perhaps the only plant recommended for planting is anubias. All the rest will be dug up and eaten away.

It is advisable to lodge handsome chromis with large fish that will not let themselves be offended. Bee cichlids, turquoise and bluish-spotted cichlids are suitable. But it is better not to lodge a scalar with them, since chromis like to bite off their fins.

Scalaria

Large-leaved plants (amazon, nymphea) are recommended for planting - they are useful for scalars for laying eggs.

Scalarians are quite peaceful creatures, therefore they get along with many species of fish. They will not touch catfish, zebrafish, labeo, dwarf cichlid, petsilia. It is undesirable to lodge with neons, guppies, barbs, large cocky fish.

Variety

Aquarium plants

Compatibility with other fish

Japanese Parrot (Theraps)

Therapies love to dig holes, so choose soft soil. Plant any of the plants recommended above, since the fish are indifferent to them.

Any small fish will be perceived by theraps as prey, so choose such “neighbors” as Meek's cichlazoma, scalars, bluish-spotted crayfish, Congo, barbs (Sumatran, Denisoni, bream), Mettinis. You should be careful with the flower horn - it can kill the therapist.

Melanochromis Johan

The bottom of the aquarium should be laid out with fragments of stones, covered with coarse sand, and clay shards should be put there, creating artificial grottoes. Plants are not needed.

Tolerant to other varieties of cichlids.Get along with lemon cichlids, hummingbirds, pawnshops, ocellaris cichla.

Auratus "Golden Parrot"

Only hard-leaved Anubias is recommended for planting, since other aquatic plants will be destroyed.

Auratus is an aggressor, especially male fish try. It is best to settle them either with those who can "give back", for example, with pseudotrophies, or with fast-swimming fish living in the upper sector of the aquarium.

Princess Burundi

It does not need underwater flora, but it will be grateful to you for decorating the bottom with stones, sand soil, clay shards and snags.

A slightly aggressive variety of cichlids, it coexists well on the same territory with its congeners. However, you cannot settle them together with the Mbuna cichlid, since it is distinguished by aggression, and with orange lamprologus, since interspecific crossing is not excluded.

Variety

Aquarium plants

Compatibility with other fish

Blue dolphin

Recommendations are the same as for Melanochromis Johan and Princess of Burundi.

Any small fish will become a victim, equal-sized "neighbors" will live with the dolphin in peace and harmony. African catfish, frontosa are especially recommended. It is better not to settle the cichlida Mbuna, as she is too aggressive.

Pseudotropheus Lombardo

They love to dig up plants and gnaw on foliage, so either plant anubias or give up the aquatic flora altogether.

A very vicious fish, ready to attack anyone who gets in its way. Male pseudotrophies cannot coexist peacefully in one container, so choose one male and several females for settling.

Queen of Tanganyika (frontosa)

Anubias, echinodorus are recommended for planting.

They belong to non-aggressive varieties, but they guard the territory so zealously that it is advisable to keep only them. You can form a flock of one male and 3-4 females, or settle 9-12 fish at once.