Neolamprologus brichardi Care and Breeding: A Great Shell Dweller Tank Mate!
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2019
- Hello Fellow Fish Keepers,
In this video we take a closer look at Neolamprologus brichardi a great fish from Lake Tanganyika. It goes well with many of the fish from that lake and shows some very interesting fry care.
Want some tank mate options for Neolamprologus brichardi? Check out these species profiles!
Neolamprologus similis: • Neolamprologus similis...
Cyprichromis leptosoma: • Cyprichromis leptosoma...
Neolamprologus callipterus: • Neolamprologus callipt...
Neolamprologus ocellatus: • Lamprologus ocellatus ...
Neolamprologus multifasciatus: • Neolamprologus Multifa...
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Want some tank mate options for Neolamprologus brichardi? Check out these species profiles!
Neolamprologus similis: ua-cam.com/video/ZjkZkyh12cI/v-deo.html
Cyprichromis leptosoma: ua-cam.com/video/_MTq01SOC_8/v-deo.html
Neolamprologus callipterus: ua-cam.com/video/CahZrWXoJno/v-deo.html
Neolamprologus ocellatus: ua-cam.com/video/tqAOrEA6fyw/v-deo.html
Neolamprologus multifasciatus: ua-cam.com/video/LymOSgIcDss/v-deo.html
These guys have been on my bucket list for a while. They're so beautiful!
An absolutely beautiful fish. While in my fishroom I often think of the colony of these I kept a decade ago. Thanks for sharing this video 👍🏽
I love these fish. My favorite of all !
Thanks for all your advice. I just had my first fry.
Really excited.
That's awesome! Congrats!
Those male that are predominantly featured are really amazing! Some of the nicest I've seen. Great job Jason as usual. 👍
Thank you!
Watched this like 3 times in the past couple of days :) setting one up
O ya! When they start breeding it's so cool! : -)
I love them, I have been in and out of the hobby and they have always been in my tanks. they need a lot of hiding places for breeding and the safety of the fry. I have used stacked Lava Rock and stacked Reef Rock.
Great info. I keeep mine on 110 gallon, beautiful colony!
Man, these profiles you've done on these & other Tanganyika Cichlids is really well done. Great job!
Thank you!
This is the fish that got me started with African Cichlids. Brings back memories.
I started with African Cichlids with almost no knowledge back in the early 1990s, I bought a bunch of mixed Mbuna and quickly learned from a friend that I was on the wrong path. Except for my Labidochromis, I got rid of them all and started getting some more hard-to-find and slightly friendlier fish. I love my Brichardi's but my all-time favorite was a Crytocara Moorii aka Malawi Blue Dolphin
The shape of this fish is so elegant and beautiful!
I agree!
Thank you these are the fish I'm raising really helpful video
Awesome video Jason.
Thank you!
Your live feed sent me here love it thanks for the stocking ideas for the 37 breeder definitely going with the brichardi!! I have the city hard water. This will really work out well love the stock.
That will be cool!
Brichardi are very aggresive but still lovable
Beautiful, Graceful, Super tough, super territorial fish. They LOVE to dig! I highly recommend sand. I have araganite “sugar.” Just about every rock has been dug out from underneath. Make sure you keep the base rocks on the glass or your pile will tumble. There are many mountains and troughs in my tank. They like to keep the newborn fry in the troughs. They actually like shells too! I have several escargot shells left in the tank. The 1/2 inch to 1 inch fry love them. I have even seen the adults poke in and out of them. IF going for tank mates I would put the tank mates in first and start with only two Brichardi. I started with 5 and 3 Tretacephalus of the same size in a 75 gallon tank. The trets were quickly relegated to the upper corners. There were babies right away. I tried putting in 3 Julidocromis, 5 similis, and 5 small leleupi 1.25 inch. One mother? Who had just had fry started targeting all the new fish and killed a leleupi and kept terrorizing the newcomers. They all live in a 40 breeder now along with 1 of the trets. It would probably be more successful if the Brichardi had to stake a claim in one section and start breeding rather than start breeding everywhere and defend the whole tank.
Very good points!
I had a male and female pair in a smaller tank with a male and female Dwarf Honey Gourammi and they got along great with them, even backing off when Honeys were breeding. : )
I have a breeding pair and they are a delight to own. Very easy going and not picky at all. I keep them in a 45 gallon with a group of 6 Black Phantom Tetras that I re-homed from another tank. Everyone gets along so far 🤞🏾. Brichardi’s run the bottom of my tank and the Tetras just dance around the middle and top of the tank. Great video.
Glad they are working out for you! They are fun fish.
This has always been one of my favorite Tanganyikans, second only to the Frontosa. A Tanganyikan biotope style aquarium is one of the options I'm looking at for my 125g when I set it up in the future. Was thinking of making some rock work and then having a large area with shell dwellers and then was thinking something like the Cyprichoromis leptosomas for a open water fish in the tank. I have at least 3 other options I would like to do as well, but I don't have to choose until I can actually set it up and get it cycled. That's something for the future that I just can't do right now due to living in a 2nd floor apartment. I would really love to get some of the Daffodil brichardi.
I did something very similar with one of my 125s!
I have 2 F and 1 M breeding in a 63 gallon with Julies. I have sand and they dig a lot - my multiple generations do not only defend the fry, but help their parents to dig sand. It’s adorable!
Younger ones also hang out near another adult Brichardi who doesn’t breed.
Do the brichardi get along with the Julie’s when spawning? I’m reading different information. Some saying a pair do fine in a community tang tank, others saying they kill everything in the tank when spawning
My tank is a 4 footer
Thanks for any info
This is probably my favorite lake tanganyikan cichlid alongside the frontosa and part of my top 3 favorite african cichlids with, again, the frontosa, and the Sulfurhead Peacock. They look like saltwater fish and are relatively chill when theyre not breeding. :D I got a colony of 5 and the smallest one is probably the feistiest one.
Frontosa are beautiful but mine were easily spooked and would dart through my 125, it was not nice to see.
My faves!
They are my favorite fish. They make great parents. We have raised up several generations of them. They don't need our help in that. Just feed them and keep plenty of hiding places.
I have had the same experience with them, I love them until they multiply to crazy numbers .... LOL
I just adopted 10🎉
I have multies and put a mated pair into a 29 with them, they are cichlids but they seem to get along! Great video! Seems like the NLS pellets and flakes they love, and eat some algae here and there
Glad it is working!
Awesome video Jason. My next tank is going to be 180 and transfer my sa cichlids to that and make my 75 into African cichlid.
That's going to be fun!
hi, can you tell me the K rating on that light? while i have you, will the stingray 2 make my brichardi colors pop, including their blue eyes.. will the stingray be bright? do have a stingray on a Tanganyika tank i can see?? thanks
too Good
Mine just bred in my 29 community tank
Always loves this speice, i got a questions tho. Are there other cichilds in south/central american with the same kind of family Bond. You can have more generations in one tank. I ones read about a astogramma that did the same but I forgot the name of it.
I can't think of any SA/CA that will form multi-generational care quite like this. Many are good parents, but other members of the same species will eat the babies, and often older siblings will eat younger fry.
You always have great videos. Great information on the Brichardi. I’m thinking of settling up my new tank with this fish. You also listed some tank mates along with your video,very helpful. I was thinking of also adding the Similes and maybe the Liptosoma to the tank as well. I went to my local fish store to ask if they had these fish and I was told I couldn’t keep any other fish with the Brichardi because they would take over the tank. I’m new to this fish,but not new to keeping cichlids. My question is have you kept any of these species together before? The information on the internet is mixed about all these fish. Your one of the few I would trust about any fish. My tank is about 233 gallons. I’m ok with a species only tank if I have to,but I’d love something to keep down the algae. Thanks.
You have a large tank so you could setup an area with shells on one side, with rock work on the other side for the Brichardi. If they start breeding they can get rough and you might find you have many hundreds of them in that size tank after six months or so.
Prime Time Aquatics Thanks....
what is that viney plant in the tank, i want to get some for my tank?
My fave African by far.
I love these guys! I just recently moved my pair to their own 50. The male is 8 years old. The female is a year. They had fry in a community tank and my synodontis ate all their fry!!! It was a sad sad thing to watch! The male faught like crazy. I even tried to help get him out of their cave. But its a cement cave built into the wall. I felt hopeless. 😞
That stinks! But not to worry, they usually reproduce fairly easily. : -)
Question for you. Do you think a pair of these, or comparable species such as marunguensis, would do well in a 25 gallon cube by themselves, with a nice pile of boulders? I'd like to breed them but I'm not looking to like produce enough to make anything substantial. Really just want to enjoy them. Kept many tangs in the past but never got into the fairy group
I think they would do fine. You will just have to remove fry as they make them. They can quickly overrun a tank. :-)
I have the purple brichardis in a pair, they have tons of babies all big and small. They just keep breeding
G'day Jason, was going to set up a tank of these guys, but they only had 2 scraggly looking specimens left when I returned to the pet store. I've heard stories of these guys going rogue and killing off all the other fish in the tank, other brichardi and all, and I was wondering if you'd heard similar things. Love the princess cichlids, I think the empty 40 long will be getting some of these guys. Great upload, thx for sharing.👌
Cichlids can be weird like that sometimes. : -) However, I have kept a lot of brichardi in the past and never observed them being unusually aggressive.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics I figured they were just a couple of rare occurrences I stumbled across. Thanks for the reply, you and Lucas are my two favorite famous fishtubers, and you inspired me to make some of my own stuff. Your water is certainly better than mine for Africans, although the commonly kept species bred in the area do pretty well in it. Anyway, thanks again from Australia mate!
Excellent video as always. Would they work in a low boy as a species tank?
I think it's possible, although they do make use of the vertical space more than Julies or shell dwellers.
I had a pair in a 20g tall (was 3 but they paired and was trying to abuse the other) but the smaller one developed a yellow bump by its eye and died.
interesting information about this species
Would a single N. brichardi be fine to keep in a 45gallon (200L) 24" (60cm) cube with a breeding colony of N. brevis and 1-2 Julies? Rock work in one corner, rest sand and the odd val. If so, would that brichardi be as happy as it would be in a group? I really appreciate your time and effort in these videos and helping folk! :)
I never noticed them act differently alone. It might try to eat some fry from other fish though.
LOVELY video jason. Im setting up a new 29 gallon... SO MANY OPTIONS! I would LOVE your input. I want to do a tanganyikan tank, with a shell dweller species and another species. What can I have in there that would go along well with each other? Id love 2 species that would get along well with each other, and that will generally leave fry alone.
It might be a little tough in a 29 gallon. Most of the mid water fish either get too big, too active or breed too much!
@@PrimeTimeAquatics Any ideas for what you would do in a 29? What shell dweller and rock dweller would you do in it? Reason why I'm specifying two things is because I'd really like at least *some* diversity in there haha. Would you do multies and some julidochromis transcriptus?
Favorite fish, my pair just had babies
Very cool!
Colony breeding? I love this timeless fish. So full of character. When I was younger and didn't know any better, I housed a pair with a pair of pink convicts. To my surprise the n. brichardi can stand their ground. The convicts had their thing on one side and the n. brichardi on the other. They constantly intimidated and peck on each other. Ugh! The operculum of the brichardi looks like a betta's. They fight as a pair same thing with the convicts. Beautiful display of territorial behavior. I repeat myself. I was young and didn't know better. Hahaha
They are great fish!
I have neolamp Pulcher which I think are aka Daffodil, they have just a little more color. They are great colony fish just like Multi's.
I much prefer them over the brichardi!
Ty ! got the answer I was looking for BUT still have a question. I am starting a 55 gallons with Neolamprologus Brichardi and was wondering if Black Calvus was a good fit. I also wanted to add 1 or 2 Synodontis Multiponctatus. How many of each ( Calvus and Brichardi ) should I get with that 55 gallons set up ??? Yes there are a lot of rocks and caves for most of them to hide. Ty 😁
The brichardi will breed like crazy but the calvus should keep the numbers managable. You could start with 6-8 of each and maybe a few cats?
@@PrimeTimeAquatics so 6-8 of each ? for a 55 gallons ? to cut the aggressivity I presume ? and what about the slow growth of Calvus , is it better to get Calvus a bit older since N. Brichardi seem to reach maturity kind of quick. Ty for your answer and reply really appreciated 🤗
Hi Jason, are you going to Aquatic Experience 2019 in New Jersey, Oct-12-13th I missed all my favorite FishTubers last year because I was on vacation. LMK. Thanks
My plan is to be there!
Jason, what rocks did you use in your tanks to create the rock work for the brichardi? I'm getting a small group of them and want to make sure I do things right. They're going in a 20 gallon tank and I do have to be careful of weight.
We used flagstone that we got from a landscaping place. Very cheap!
@@PrimeTimeAquatics great, thank you so much!
Would these be ok in a 125 with 5-7 frontosa, a few compressiceps, and a few leleupi?
I think so. The only issue will be fry - the comps and fronts will probably eat Brichardi fry. .
So thought on brichari being with electric blue acara, Yoyo loaches, and hillstream loaches?
My guess is they would probably push the acara into the corners once they start to breed? If it was just one it might work if the water parameters are ok for both fish.
Jason the Neolamprologus brichardi that you featured in this video is very similar to Neolamprologus pulcher. Have you kept the pulcher, and if so how do they compare to one another. I really enjoy your video's and the information you provide in them.
I have kept pulcher before. My pulcher seemed to get a little larger than brichardi and I found them to be more appealing to look at - more colorful. Their temperament is about the same. Both are great fish!
I have a wild caught pair of pulcher and they definitely have a much more brilliant color. They breed well in a 20 gallon for me. Ive had them in larger tanks with other fish but they become murderers once there are babies. My pulcher also seem to almost act like rock dwellers which i didnt see with the brichardi. Im not sure if it is just what they chose to do in the part of the lake they were caught.
N. brichardi and N. pulcher are the same species (has been confirmed by DNA analysis). They just look slightly different but in all other chatacteristics should be the same
@@maggieshakalaka Indeed. It's considered the brichardi-pulcher super species complex. Differences in appearance is dependent on where they originate in the Lake. There's over 50 locals where they are found.
do you think this fish would work in a 33 long with similis shell dwellers i'm thinking that tank is to low but i'm curious at what you guys thinks thanks
Hard to say for sure - depends on how you set it up. If I tried it, I would probably have one side with rocks and the other with shells. I might try to put up a rocky structure in the middle so the similis don't move their shells to the rocky side. As you know, both get aggressive when babies are involved, but the similis less so. I'd fell better keeping them together in a 55.
Prime Time Aquatics ya that would make sense with the rock side not sure if I’m going to try it maybe some day I’ll set up a 55 for them both that sounds like a fantastic idea
Thanks for all the videos always get some fun ideas from them :)
Samuel Pacheco ah nice that is good to know it works :)
Just how large should a tank be for Multi's and Brichardi's to be together?
Looking at a 37g or 36g bowfront for a Brichardi colony but having some Multi's at the bottom seems like it would be very cool.
The Brichardi can overrun a tank in a hurry. In a 37G, like the one I have, I would just keep the Brichardi and probably not try to mix them unless I had a 55 gallon or even better a 75 gallon or larger.
1st - thanks for the reply and all your videos/advice.
2nd - i might use this as an excuse to get a 75/90 gallon.
Great video! Thanks again!
hi, can you tell me what that viney plant in the front of the tank is? the one fish hide in, i have fry coming and want to get that for them to hide in.. asap please
We grow a lot of hornwort in our tanks.
What about to help eat the algae would a bristle nose work and a mystery snail I literally have the exact same tank with literally one male one female brichardi and it looks so empty there only 1/2”
The BN pleco should help. The Brichardi might decide the snail is food though :-)
Aside from Rams and Apistos, this is my favorite. If my 40b wasn’t current,h occupied...
hey, just bought 6 of these at 1/1.5 inches in length and offered all the foods you listed but they did not eat. They all appear to be very healthy and physically robust fish but they haven't eaten yet. could that be because they are still acclimating to the tank?
It could be. I usually give them a few days to get used to everything.
Great upload.I have dwarf cichlids, Rams-T-Bar - Convicts- Kribensis - Damesoni & a few others, will these be able to live with them?
Thanks. 🇬🇧
I probably wouldn’t - I could see these fish bullying the fish you already have
@@PrimeTimeAquaticsThanks. 😢
They don't grow any bigger than 4 inches, do they? Roughly the same size as Dwarf Cichlids, are they just more aggressive? Would they have to hobin with African Cichlids ? Most of which grow bigger. 🇬🇧
I have a pair of adults in a 40 gallon that have spawn multiple times. There are now probably 30 youngsters. As they grow-up, how many adults could I keep in that tank? Thanks.
At least a dozen!
Nice video! Can I keep a tank with a couple of julies, a couple of Caudopunks and only one Brichardi as cebterpiece? What should be the size?
Sure - a 29 gallon would be a good size (or larger).
@@PrimeTimeAquatics thanks, you rock!
When making them a community what’s the tank size to go with. I only have the pair and a pleco
The 37 gallon I have here worked well, but a 40 breeder or greater would be really cool!
If I have these with some shell dwellers in my 4ft (50gal approx), will they breed? Will the fry survive? My LFS have a breeding pair on hold for us, trying to work out whether to just use a different tank for them.
You might get some fry survival, but overall fry survival for both may be minimal.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics decided against housing them together, im getting a new 50gal for the brichardi.
hi, i have a all brichardi tank. in the video of your tank, do you use actinic led lighting too,? i run exotic's 12 K panorama pro led on my tank..
I just have an old Aqueon led on that tank.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics hi again, can you tell me the k rating on that led setup, i like how the blue pops on your brichardi's, your using just a daylite led?
@@PrimeTimeAquatics do you know if actinic lighting promotes brown algae?
I have a mixed tank and I have three brachardi in my tank that I thought were all males, but apparently I have a female also. I was cleaning my tank the other day when I noticed there were Fry in the corner of the tank. I didn’t want them to get eaten, so I set up another tank and moved the Barchardi and fry to that tank. The second day I noticed that one of them was swimming in the corner up at the top of the water gasping, and the other two looked to be bullying him, so I moved him back to my main tank. Now from what I’m guessing is the female, keeps hiding in one corner under some plants and the dad is bullying her. He is protecting the fry, but he has nipped her fins, and she is staying hidden. What should I do?
You may have to separate them.
Can one female be compatible in a community tank with barbs and kribs in an 55gal
You would probably have to keep an eye on its interaction with the kribs. I could see the Brichardi ruling the tank.
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hi can i ask if that's the finnex stingray 1 or 2 light? and what is that viney plant in the tank, i want to get some for my tank?
That is the original Finnex 1, but I would go with the Finnex Stringray II - it's a better light.
thanks@@PrimeTimeAquatics
My Brichardi was having no part of any Brevis in their tank. It was shaping up to be a blood bath. Ended up putting a divider in.
Sometimes that's necessary!
Hi how are you. Question can I put birch wood in my aquarium
I have seen people do it. I like the way it looks. They didn't have any issues, but I have also heard people say they had issues after adding it.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics thanks
What do you think light or dark substrate for brichardi?
Actually - I have had them on both. They show a little better color on dark, but it's not much of a difference.
Where can I buy the prime time aquatics shirt you are wearing?
We'll have the website up very soon! : -)
You think they would get along with apistogramma cacatouides?
Probably not - my guess is they would bully them
Curious if you have Paracyprichromis. Nigripinnis Blue neon, etc? Super pretty and allegedly peaceful
I do! I have found they don't look as good as a lot of the pictures make them out to be (usually the pics are super altered). They look best in a tank with subdued lighting in my opinion.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics That is a MAJOR Peeve of mine - enhanced fish photos! Drives me nuts. When searching the net, if they show a clearly enhanced photo - I won't read their content :)
I want one!
I don't blame you. Haha
I have a whole colony for you🙂
What kind of specie is more easy to breed Brichardi or Leleupi ??
Brichardi but the issue will eventually be getting rid of the fry - it can be difficult to do. 😀
Would like to have one male brichardi but it eats differently than my absolute gonna have Yellow Lab and Rusty. :( No interest in breeding, esp brichardi.
Can I keep some of these in a 20 gallon
Possibly, but they would probably have to be the only fish in the tank and you will have to remove fry as they start to populate the tank.
I had 6 of these in a 29 gallon many years ago. They did wonderful together and bred too! I had since re-homed them. I recently set up that exact tank with another 6 Brichardi and they were so aggressive towards each other! One they made jump out of the tank (and lost him), two others they tormented to near death and had to quarantine them to another 10g tank, and then just last night they killed another smaller one. So now I have just the two of them (and they’re both males) in the 29gallon. Now I’m in the process of setting up a 55 gallon to transfer them all to, but it seems crazy that I can’t keep more than 2. Should I try to introduce another species or maybe more of the same??
I think they will probably do better in the larger tank. Certainly should be possible to add more of them to the 55 gallon.
which is better for you?
neolamprologus brichardi or
neolamprologus pulcher "daffodil"?
I prefer the Daffodils more - they have more color.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics great!! are daffodils as easy to take care of ? (i got into tangs cause of u btw)
Sir how to know male and female Brichardi??.. pls guide me
Males are a little larger with longer fins.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics thank you so much for reply
Can I mix this fish with African cichlids?
These are african cichlids, but from Lake Tanganyika.I have mixed them with mild-mannered mbuna and peacocks without issues. That being said, if they start breeding they can quickly over-take a tank and start causing issues.
Where can I buy them?
You could try The Wet Spot?
I heard all tang cichlids cant digest blood worms ?
That isn’t true. That being said - I really don’t feed a lot of blood worms at all.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics thank you.. i did find that statement to be weird .. why could other cichlids digest them but not tangs.
Super cool fish but they can be stone cold killers once they start breeding. I have way too many if anyone in the Philadelphia area wants to purchase some.
Definitely have to consider tank size and tank mates carefully. A tank full of them does look pretty cool though. : -)
Love them cami put them in a 20 gallon by themselves
I just bought a couple and they are really aggressive towards each other
Gorgeous fish and they look very similar to the Anthias I kept in my marine tank until 10yrs ago.
You are making the stocking choice for my new set up more and more difficult.
Stop puting out such good videos 😥
Glad I can help? Haha
@@PrimeTimeAquatics Always 😁
I got 1 thats 5.5 inches
Tell the syntodontus cats, large Haps, or whatever predator good luck. The community of these fish with generations together have many teeth.
This is actually a problem. Where do you put all the babies?
I was selling them at swaps. Other thing you can do is add some Calvus or Compressiceps - they will eat them.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics I can't. Back when I used to keep a firemouth cichlid with swordtails, I would actually rescue the newborns so that they didn't get eaten...
They breed in rain water like roaches.