What was your first ever cichlid?!?

[pittbully13]

Just bought a GBR....super cool. First cichlid ever.

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[Fishy Smell]

Just don't keep your water too cool. They like it pretty hot.


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[pittbully13]

Trust me, I wont..my tanks are in the garage. ...gets pretty warm in there. No need for a heater.

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[LilBangarang]

A frontosa with a Cory two clown loaches and a worryingly large plecostomus

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[TheCommunityCichlid]

I can't even remember... Probably a yellow lab, Just passed away the other day 10 years old ):

 

[Ulrichsd]

As a kid we had some neon tetras and guppies and an algae eater. The guppies just hybridized everything and the algae eater lived like 10 years.

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[bubbacichlids]

Pike

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[Swiler123]

oscar cichlid

 

[sammbaxter]

My first cichlids were three red zebras and one yellow lab, which I got from this guy who didn't want his fish anymore, in a ten gallon. I upgraded to a 55 and added a german red, sulphur head, and a pleco about two months ago and now I just ordered a OB peacock, Azureous, Apache, and a Lethrinops Intermedius last week and they arrive tomorrow. Freakin excited to get these guys in my tank!

 

[dalto]

My first cichlid was Mikrogeophagus altispinosa(Bolivian Ram). I had a group of them in a 75g community tank and they were awesome to watch.

Since then I have kept at least 50 different species of cichlids but I still want to get another group of these guys someday.

 

[Gillie]

My first cichlid was Mikrogeophagus altispinosa(Bolivian Ram). I had a group of them in a 75g community tank and they were awesome to watch.

Since then I have kept at least 50 different species of cichlids but I still want to get another group of these guys someday.

It would be cool to see a bolivian tope tank with black phantom tetras, bronze cories, an ancistrus sp and bolivian rams. Hmm I may have a future project lol.

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[Iamtechno13]

Yeah that would be cool. For all the Ram's and Apisto's I have and have had, that's one of the few I've never kept. Great little fish though.

 

[Malupoo]

Convicts! They bred like rabbits and I ended up filling all the local stores with fry for months


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[CoronaBlue]

Just acquired a tank and kept the fish. So first Ciclids were 3 Bumble bees, red zebra and yellow lab.