Adding New African Cichlids the RIGHT way! In 4K (Including Quarantine)
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- I've missed making African Cichlid videos and this one made me remember just how beautiful they are! We got 5 new African Cichlids STUDS from Snakeriver Cichlids and they did not disappoint!
Watch as we acclimate them to the quarantine tank, complete quarantine, and finally add them into the 210G main tank with the rest of the boys.
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When I used to get from them, I loved their bags and how they sealed them. I never had an issue with any of their stock! Best OB's hands down from them!
But now it's central and south american cichlids in my tanks.
I agree. I switched to
@@davidolsen3209 I do miss my original Malawi guys but having aggressive American cichlids are unbelievable to watch.
African cichlid aggression is nothing compared to species like parachromis or mesoheros festae
I never quarantine but I should start.. But I’ve healed fish with ich in my main tank with heat and aquarium salt. 0 loses also
Thats how to treat it for sure. But prevention is always better than treatment.
Beautiful cichlids Kevin. Great video my friend.
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That Albino Super Red is awesome! The color is so bright :)
It is!! Couldn’t believe it with my own eyes! 😁
Here's to Kev finally getting some scissors that work! 🍻
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😢😢😢 I just ordered from them last week none of my 6 fish was the right size one of them dies by the next morning. I will not order from them again.
Sorry to hear that. I guarantee if you reach out and tell them this happened they will send you 6 new fish for the mistake made!
How many cichlids do you have in that 220? That is a 220 right?
It's a 210...about 50-60
Looks like bud of weed for a min
Been watching your videos for about 2 months now. You pretty much helped me cycle my 55gal and got me to the point where I was able to add my fish and Ive had 0 deaths! (knock on wood) Thank you SO MUCH. Your videos are very clear and educationals.
My pleasure! Glad you're finding the channel helpful. 😊
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Beautiful tank have been following for about a month now was interested in joining the hobby and your videos have taken away alot of my fears
Thank you bro! Glad you're finding the channel helpful. Everything you need can be found right here. I always try to keep the beginners in mind with my content! 😁💪
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Some fish with sunken belly never recover or take really long to pass the parasite . I’ve had the same fish and he’s barely coming around after months of treatment
Unfortunately, yes.
As an expert I can confirm he waited two weeks
The beard growth on my guy is proof enough
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New fish are Beautiful and love the size and color's! Tank is beautiful Kev with all of the different color's and patterns on all the fish. I can see why you love your Ciclids for sure! Love it...and Cooper is beautiful too!❤❤❤😊
I’ve always been attracted to the colorful side of the hobby and that’s how my love for Africans grew. Then I found more colorful fish, the Discus, the Americans…and now Saltwater will be the next color obsession lol
@@KaveManAquatics ☺️ I'm excited for the up and coming saltwater tank! This is going to be fun to see! ❤️❣️
I own a 115 gallon Aquavim tank and it is over-stocked w/ Peacocks and Happs like the ones you see in this video. I bought all of them from Snake River Cichlids. I cannot recommend SRC enough. My fish have been growing and living good lives for over a year w/o any issues. In the year that I purchased my fish from SRC, I only lost two during delivery and SRC was quick to resolve. I am comfortable not quarantining my fish from SRC because they use quality water and only sell quality fish. Once again, you can’t go wrong with Snake River Cichlids!
Have to agree bro! 😁💪
Its beautifull, salam dari indonesia🎉😊
Thank you! 😁💪
so it is time to give my flowers, bro you are a life saver and changer! once upon a time I was just buying fish for decoration, had my 55 gallon going with no knowledge of anything just tap water and a fluval, ever since finding your channel I have become obsessed with my 55 gallon and my column tank 15 gallons. you helped save my Parrot fist "pop" I had for 3 years and have given me the confidence to start adding more fish to the 55 gallon. you are truly the GOAT, now if I can convince my wife to let me get a 125 I will be in heaven. in short thank you bro, and keep pushing! and to all that's watching get your merch support the Youngman so we can all enjoy this very expensive hobby! lol.
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I have 2 yellow labs and two mbuna’s in my tank for 2 months. Then I put in a convict and a fire belly. Both got chased around but the convict would fight back some while the fire belly ran and hid. Next day fire belly was dead and convict was still great. Keep just those 5 fish in tank for another month and last week I got a pleco and an Oscar. They pecked at pleco tail some and he went into hiding and they were pecking at Oscar even convict was going mouth to mouth fighting while the African’s. Were nipping tail and fins. So I put Oscar in QT floating in main tank for a week. Put him back in 2 days ago and everything was great. Keep going to tank for 20-30 mins every few hours to watch and all getting along. Woke up yesterday morning and Oscar was severely but all find bad and the whole top of fish scales were gone! The Oscar would swim right over to mbuna and then get bit but wouldn’t swim away every time even when I first put him back in. I went to get him out tank yesterday and all fish were chasing him down and biting him. Even the pleco was killed with his tail nipped pretty bad! Why is this keep happening every time I try to add a new fish even after QT for a week. All fish are the same size!
I have a giraffe cichlid I added to my peacock tank. He outgrew them and killed them all and now is torturing the last fish a dolphin cichlid. If I added about 5 new peacocks could that curb the aggression or is he likely to kill them? He’s 6ish inches. Shopping 3-4in peacocks.
The Malawi Preds are amazing, I'm starting a new rank of Malawi preds only. I don't like mixing different species
Hi Kev beautiful fishes
Question how come you don’t buy fishes as baby’s and then watch them grow up to 6 inches plus? Ain’t that more fun. I had African cichlids few years ago miss them just started a saltwater tank in January and I regret it lol
Hola amigo como me puedes orientar tengo un electric blue acara que tiene sunkybelly no quiere comer y lo e tratado con baños de Epsom salt pero todavía sigue sin comer que me recomiendas hacer gracias
I purchased a Thermal Pen and Ill never use anything else to check water temp. It literally gives you the temp in seconds.
What's the water TEMP for your Cichlids?? I have mine in my office, which hangs around 80 degrees. It seems ok, since he's swimming around and looks all right. :)
Mine is at 80 too. 😁💪
What cichlids would you recommend for a 55g and how many? Also saw your Marine picture and a Harrier above your PC, what squadron were you with? I was with VMA-211.
Some African Cichlids would go great in there. But if you're new to them theres a lot to learn. Start with this playlist loaded with tons of info on African Cichlids - ua-cam.com/play/PLP5OXTIIDO8MG9hyJ8PjbC33zEbcyy8__.html
I was at Cherry Point, VMA 542 💪💪
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I’m looking to order some Frontis where do you order your fishes from your pal Sal NYC🗽🤘😎 Thank you
Link in the description bro
Thanks to your easy instructions Kev I have already started another tank and cycled it for cichlids! But I cannot find the type cichlid I am looking for.. Do you have any suggestions of where to get polar blue parrot cichlids? Plz & ty
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Thx for the update on the fish with sunken belly. Will you be removing the two that still show signs of disease to a separate tank to medicate, or medicate the whole tank?
Gorgeous tank!!! Still not sure I can re establish my 75g cichlid tank as a 63y old woman, but your vids always inspire me to try ❤
Im sure you can!!! 😁💪 Since the medicated food is good for all the fish, I'm going to leave the 2 guys there and feed everyone another round 😁
Good video amigo tengo una pregunta cuántos african cichild entre OB peacock, Haps and mbuna cuantos puedo tener en un 75 gallon tank?
20-25. Watch this - ua-cam.com/video/q9OoEfYBB6s/v-deo.html
I just ordered 4 OBs from Snake River thanks for the discount!!
Lets GOOO!! Congrats on your new guys!
I’ve watch too many videos not to subscribe so today, I added myself. Thank you for your videos.
Better late than never! lol Welcome aboard! 😊💪
Stunning fish Cory
Snake River is great, I’ve ordered from them a few times
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Can you explain your QC method? Do you add them both at the same time or do one for a few days and then the other?
Yes both at thew same time for at least 10 days. Watch this - ua-cam.com/video/nQJqxfjF1J0/v-deo.html
True, they look outstanding. Snake River Cichlids hooked you up. Those are some great additions to your tank. Stunning!! I wish there was a Mbuna cichlids similar to yours.
Thank you bro! 😁
Great pick up😊 DETROIT
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Definitely will do told my wife I have MTS lol😂 she still don’t get it
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Cant wait to see your face when you get your first pair of clowns 🐟
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Snake river keeps good OB peacocks and haps. Although, Imperial has a larger variety of fish. They keep really good American / Central cichlids. I have purchased from both. Currently stocking my 230 gallon with American and Central American cichlids.
I agree with you. I like the Central and South Americans just pick some up from Imperial Tropicals and Tampa Bay cichlids
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Are those frontosa’s in your tank?
Yup, 3 years strong! And they said it couldn’t be done 🤷🏼♂️
Kave I’m getting my 75g tank set up , which canister is your go to? New to your channel haven’t gone through all your videos but deff would appreciate your input . 🫶 from the NOLA
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African cichlids
Salt and pepper beard in full effect, 😁
End of every week! 🤣🤣🤣
Couldn't here what the blue one is called,I'm new and like blues and purples,could you suggest some of these colors for me
If you mean the one with a blue face thats a Malawi Hawk. Did the text names of each fish not pop up for you?
@@KaveManAquatics they did not
top notch beautiful
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great video
Thank you! Glad you're enjoying the channel! 😁💪
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Those boys are beautiful 😍
Thank you!! 😁😁
Instead of quarantine can I put them in my main tank and just give the entire tank the seachem QC products?
Absolutely! You’ll be using more meds in a bigger water volume. But if you don’t mind that, the main can be used to treat meds too 😁💪
The QC won’t stain your main or the seals 👍👍
@@KaveManAquatics how many fish would you recommend to add at one time? I just went a little crazy on snake river cichlids with your code 😂
Amazing Fish ❤️
Finally some love to the africans baby
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Beautiful new fish, the colours are astounding. Gordo however is still the beauty of the tank 😜😍. Excellent vid kev. I enjoy the behavioural vids very much.
Glad you enjoyed it and Glad that Gordo still has his fan base! 🤣🤣
Bro you got some great looking Studs !!!! big boyz!
Thanks bro! 😁💪
Male African cichlid only tanks are like a bubble tank with a single poor goldfish. Not natural !!!!
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@@KaveManAquatics Hey Bro, there are many ways to make an african cichlid tank. You can make a natural environment with two or three couples of fish and enjoy looking for their breeding behaviour and baby care. Alternatively, you can make a male only tank full of colourful fish, but definitely, not natural !!!
@@constantinyanicostas4664 It’s very apparent you’ve never kept African Cichlids. You cannot keep only 2 or 3 African Cichlids. If you want to learn about them just ask, instead of pretending you know what you’re talking about.
@@KaveManAquatics Read well before replying, I said 2 or 3 couples (meaning a male and a female) of african cichlids for a 200 gallons tank, not three single poor males! I've kept and bred many different fish species for over 40 years, including Malawi and Tanganika cichlids. Perhaps, you like overcrowded tanks, but personnally I prefere a tank in which fish display their natural behaviour (breeding, defending a territory, raising babies, etc.).
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Really!? Where is the link you’re using?
I just clicked them all here and they worked 🤷🏼♂️
@@KaveManAquatics OK I'll try again
I love SRC fishes, they have best ones.
Just ordered 2 Sunshines and Albino Super Red Peacocks. Thank you for the code.
My pleasure! Enjoy those new studs!
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But did you watch the video?
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Wow! Absolutely beautiful!!
Thank you so much!
New guys are stunning 😮
Thank you! 😁💪
Your progress is awesome Kev. 👌
Thank you bro! 😁💪
Man I appreciate your videos. You've helped me more than you know.
My pleasure bro! Glad you're finding the channel helpful. 😊
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I’ve got 40 gallon breeder my first fluval 307 I’m stocking with Mubuna cichlids I’ve had them before but new tank can’t stay away from the Mubuna s💯💪🏿 can’t wait to see the salt water tank come together
Consider upgrading to at least a 55 for Mbuna and at least a 407...They'll love the space bro!
Hey Kev awesome video bro..Just curious have you ever DIY your own aquarium stand build?
Negative bro...I'm not handy like that lol
New guys looked great. I’ll be doing the hap peacock bundle from them. Also can’t wait to watch the saltwater adventure.
Nice!! You'll definitely get some studs!
Bro i enjoy every one of your videos big Kev. You have some beautiful fish and I swear every video they look more colorful. Another great video my guy
Thank you my bro! 😁
Hes baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!!! Good job bro. I would say if you can do it move the two guys that need to gain weight in your quarantine tank and target feed. I currently have a few that im doing that with myself still even though their severe sunken belly is gone. I believe this way the fish that needs to gain the weight doesn't have to compete with 50 big fish in the tank and should be able to eat enough to put that weight back on. Keep the African content coming!
Thank you for the tip bro! During the medicated feeding they got plenty to eat. I just think they needed a longer treatment period. I was happy to see them eating to vigorously during the treatment. So I know it improved their health. Hopefully 1 more round should do it 💪🤞
Funny thing is , that is how i do my water changes and when i add new Fish too - pretty good way to go bro
Thanks my bro! Glad you enjoyed the video!
Beautiful fish brother 🔥
Thank you bro! 😁
Love the way that box was packed!❤
Me too!!! Not a drip of water in sight!
They all look great!!!
Thank you bro! 😁
Wow they look beautiful. I am a newbie. I was wondering why there is no gravel or sand in the bottom of the tank? ❤ not forgetting your handsome dog 🐾
No need in a quarantine tank. They're just in there temporarily 😁 I highly suggest you check out my playlist for beginners. It'll be very helpful for you 😁 - ua-cam.com/play/PLP5OXTIIDO8NYvhUHAmwAd54WFmS4d8er.html
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@@KaveManAquatics Thank you for taking time to reply, much appreciated. I will definitely check out the links as suggested. 👍
I thought how to acclimate fish was to take the water they came in and put them in a bucket/tank and pour some of your tank water in that bucket every 15 min. After a few times, take just the fish and put in your tank.
When fish get delivered to you they're in a sealed bag. The moment you open that bag and oxygen gets inside it affects the toxicity of the ammonia in that water. Do not use that bag water for any reason after you open the bag. If you must, then add a drop of Seachem Prime to detoxify the ammonia. Drip acclimation isnt necessary for most fish. If your PH is different from the bag water source, adding water to the bag water takes days for that PH to adjust.
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Curious how you have flip flopped on premedication for new fish. Several times in fact. And now slinging unrelated stuff. No integrity left in people.
Flip flopped several times? You must not learn or implement a single new thing in your life...or do you still drink from a sippy cup? FLIP FLOPPER!
Don't bring your negativity here. Just keep it moving. Kev has helped and continues to help MANY fish keepers including myself. Just read other comments to see how people feel about the man.