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How do you keep a Luo Han fish (flowerhorn) well?
Feed live foods like brine shrimp, bloodworms, and mealworms as supplements, with artificial feed as the staple. Keep water temperature around 28C and maintain pH 6.0-7.8 with regular water changes.
What Fish Can Be Kept With an Arowana?
Arowanas are large, aggressive, territorial fish, so tank mates should be other big, fast swimmers such as parrot cichlids, oscars, datnoids, and rays. Use a tank large enough for each fish's territory, match water parameters (pH, hardness, temperature), and similar diets to avoid conflict.
What fish are best to keep with oscars (map fish)?
Oscars can be kept with similarly sized, robust fish such as blood parrots, jewel cichlids, silver sharks, and arowanas. Avoid small tankmates they'll bully or eat.
Why Did My Blood Parrot Cichlid’s Tail Turn Black?
Blood parrot cichlids are popular aquarium fish, and owners are often alarmed when a fish's tail slowly turns black. The cause is usually practical rather than mysterious—water temperature swings, poor water quality, a fright, or a bacterial black-spot disease. Most cases trace back to husbandry, so the fix is often a better water routine. This guide explains the common reasons and the matching treatment to bring the color back.
Peacock Bass
The Peacock Bass (Cichla ocellaris), also known as the Crown Three-Band Cichlid, is a large predatory cichlid reaching 30-60 cm as an adult. A fierce carnivore, it should be fed live prey or trained onto fish-meat chunks and must not be kept with smaller tank mates.
Clown Dwarf Cichlid
The Clown Dwarf Cichlid is often imported mixed with the Cockatoo and Agassiz's dwarf cichlids. It is distinctive for a black vertical stripe on the body and red-blue speckles on the gill cover. Because imports are scarce, it is not widely kept.
Paucis Dwarf Cichlid
The Paucis dwarf cichlid was earlier called the blue lyretail dwarf cichlid, later renamed from a foreign translation. Males show a bright pale-blue metallic sheen, very pretty, but both keeping and breeding are very hard.
Malawi Eye-biter
The Malawi eye-biter, also called the horseface cichlid, reaches 25 cm as an adult and is native to Lake Malawi in East Africa. Its bizarre, knife-like face and compressed body make it a striking and popular cichlid.
Convict Cichlid
The Convict Cichlid (Nine-bar) is a small cichlid among American cichlids. Despite its small size it is tough, often beating larger fish. Easy to keep and sturdy, its toughness makes it good with large cichlids.
Golden Severum
Pineapple cichlids divide into two common varieties: the Golden Severum and the Green Severum. Here we focus on the Golden Severum. It is gentle, easy to keep, not picky but with a big appetite.