Christmas Fulu cichlid

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Name: Christmas Fulu cichlid (Haplochormis Phytophagus)
Alternative name or alias: HAPS, Lake Victoria cichlids HAPS
Family: cichlid fish (Cihlidaediae)
Genus: Xystichormis
Habitat: Lake Victoria, Lake Kenyaboli and Kenyan Yala swamp
Size: 4.4 inch or 11 cm
Lifetime: unknown
Tank area: end of the tank
Diet: Herbivore, vegetables
Temperature: 77-92 degrees F (25-33 C)
PH: 7.5 to 8.2
Hardness: dGH 12-25
Minimum tank required: 40 gallons
Compatible friend: Brycynus Sadleri and Synodontis Afrofisheri
Kennel Name: Fetus mouth Brooder

Christmas Fulu cichlids is a family of cichlid fish (cichlids). This fish is an endangered species. The body shape is different from common cichlids that have oval and wide body. 11 Cm or 4.4 inch reach the length. The female is generally smaller than the male.

How to care it:
You must have at least 40 gallon tank for a group of the Fulu. You can water heater above all you live at subtropical country install. Your tank can keep warm the aerator. As a common cichlid, the Christmas Fulu need some hiding place. Decorate the tank with several hiding places and protected area such as Bogwood, PVC pipe, rock, etc.. The hiding place is a House for them. You can give fine substrate in the bottom of the tank for their nest, because these fish like to dig. You need to put any water system, because the fish like to break.
You want to maintain a group containing 6-8 2 males and females, you need 250 gallon tank.

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The cichlids are polygamy fish; Therefore, you may receive several women for a male. The relationship between males females is 1: 4. keeping it since young. The females will keep the eggs at the mouth up to three weeks.
Feeding
Christmas Fulu preferred pellet and vegetable meat. They can eat them with meat occasionally feed.

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Kenyi cichlid

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Name: Kenyi cichlids (Metriaclima Lombardoi)
Alternative name or alias: Kenyi, blue Kenyi Kenyi cichlids
Family: cichlid fish (Cihlidaediae)
Habitat: Malawi lake and Mbenji Iceland, African
Size: 4-6 inches or 10-15 cm
Life expectancy: 18 years
Tank area: end of the tank
Diet: Herbivore, vegetables
Temperature: 78-80 degrees F (22-28 ° C)
PH: 7.8 to 8.2
Hardness: dGH 12-25
Minimum tank required: 55 litres
Compatible friend: other Malawi Mbuna cichlids
Kennel Name: Fetus mouth Brooder
Temperament: aggressive
Kenyi cichlids are a family of cichlid fish (cichlids). The body shape is different from common cichlids that have oval and wide body. 10-15 Cm or 4-6 inch reach the length. This Cishlid is part of the medium size cichlid. The life span is quite long, or 18 years.
In the meantime, the male colour is yellow; Now is the female color blue. If the fish was a boy, was the female and male color blue.
The behavior is so aggressive, so is this fish not good for Community fish. You can attack other fish.

How to care it:
Put it in the 55-gallon tank fish and facilitate it with water filter and aerator. You can water heater above all you live at subtropical country install. Your tank can keep warm the aerator. As a common cichlid, the Kera need some hiding place. Decorate your tank with some hiding places such as Bogwood, PVC pipe, rock. The hiding place is a House for them. The tank can give you fine substrate in the bottom.
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The cichlids are polygamy fish; Therefore, you may receive several women for a male. Hold since young. The females will keep the eggs at the mouth up to three weeks.
Feeding
The Kera is omnivorous, so they vegetables as must. The Kera preferred to eat algae than life. They could feed on algae in your tank.
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Yellow tail Acei cichlid

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Name: Yellow tail Acei cichlid (Psedeuthopus Acei)
Family: cichlid fish (Cihlidaediae)
Habitat: Lake Malawi, East Africa
Size: 4.5 x or 11,125 cm
Life expectancy: 8 years
Tank-region: all region tank
Diet: Herbivore, vegetables
Temperature: 78-82 degrees F (26-28 ° C)
PH: about 7.5
Hardness: 10-15 dGH
Minimum tank required: 40 gallons
Compatible friend: other Malawi Mbuna cichlids
Kennel Name: Fetus mouth Brooder
Temperament: peaceful

Yellow tail Acei cichlids is a Mbuna from Lake Malawi. The body shape is oval and wide. 10-15 Cm or 4-6 inch reach the length. The life span is quite long for a medium size cichlid or 18 years.
In the meantime the male color is deep blue to purple and the back and caudal fin colour is yellow. The color of the male is brighter than the female.
The temperament of this fish is not aggressive, so is this fish not good for Community fish. In contrast to other Mbuna, the Acei sometimes go to the water surface.
How to care it:
Make the fish tank at least 40 gallon tanks and facilitate it with water filter, water heater and aerator. As a common cichlid, yellow tail Acei need some hiding place. Decorate your tank with some hiding places such as Bogwood, PVC pipe, rock. The hiding place is a House for them. The tank can give you fine substrate in the bottom.

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The females will keep the eggs at the mouth up to three weeks. The female may produce 50 FRY in each breeding.
Feeding
The yellow tail Acei is omnivorous, but they prefer vegetables, meat. Feed with plants, spirulina, green vegetables and algae.

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Koi fish information

By Ted Sikkink

If you know the carp, Koi fish are their domesticated version. The name itself comes from the Japanese word "carp". Began breeding the Japanese koi fish - in the 1820s a long time ago, and since then they have bred them in different varieties. They I get different colors - black, red, orange, silver green and even blue.

In the free koi ponds are as relaxing - the sound the rippling waters in particular as it flows through your garden. If the pond owners about putting attractive plants in very conscious, it makes, that the area around the pond still centredness. The whole point of the plants is as natural an environment as possible for the Koi to create.

There are cases where Koi and plants well together but life does not; This the way may have with to do the pond owner has placed the plants - should not sit them in a pot, but they should be sitting on the pond floor, if possible, of course, it is growing. If pots are used, they can have the larger fish over, and once the Earth in tap on the pond floor, the fish begin to dig. The result is obviously murky water and a pond that is very difficult to clean much.

If you really feel want to have shed you plants in the pond, are things you can do to protect them. They can include the installation of netting, so that it embraces the pot and not they reach the fish. Pour pea gravel on the plants, so that if the pot is excited, it everywhere also doesn't help the bottom pour. If you have large pots to get River, which will put them within stones turn make it more difficult. And the Koi have a more difficult time reach the ground - they will give up soon.

Appearance issues, what flowers would well into your Koi pond?

Lilies for a start. Just the fact that they come in so many varieties makes it a wonderful option — to so many of them all sitting in the pond are different looking have. And there are varieties in shallow water to grow, so should be no problem - in fact perfect for panting right at the base of the fish pond.

If you need to those who want to grow better in deeper water, you go the pots option, to ensure that the fish that do not disturb them. Deep water lilies have broader leaves, which mean more shadows for the fish.

Plants have to an added advantage - they attract insects, which are good for koi fish - they are omnivorous and insects and larvae are ideal for them. Koi can his food also friendly, and directly from the source. If they are consistently fed by a person, they tend to take a liking for this person and to eat, from which her hand to get used. Since they are omnivorous, they share your peas, lettuce and even bits of melon, which are left over.

A great place to make the outside your home, you can. Koi pond is a natural right experience at home - they will make you happy, and you get the satisfaction of watching it grow.

For more information about the magic of Koi fish see under: http://www.KoiColors.com.

Ted Sikkink, is a former music industry executive and information research is very much in the Koi fish, photography, music, fashion, food & wine, art, and is sent a 'lifelong learning'. He helps people make better decisions with Internet marketing and social media.

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African knife fish profile

Family: Knife fish (Notoprediae)
Habitat: Nile, Niger, Oogu, Chad River basin, the Congo, Nile, African
Size: 12 inches or 30 cm
Tank-region: all region tank
Nutrition: pellet snails, crustaceans, small fish, black worm, earthworm, small
Temperature: 78-82 degrees F (22-28 ° C)
PH: 6 to 8
Hardness: 5-15 dGH
Minimum tank required: 45 to 55 litres
Compatible friend: discus, Wels, gourami, Oscar, Arowana, and Angelfish.
Kennel Name: unknown

African knife fish is a family of knife fish (Notoprediae). The performance is no different with black spirit fish. Its shape is similar to black spirit fish. The length of 12 cm reach, but could in the tank, the fish reach only up to 8 inches.
This fish is unique because has other form with other aquarium fish. You have your slim body with long fin along under body. You use the fin for swimming in the middle tier of the tank. The fin shift with spirit similar to "foot". I think that is why people there called ghost.
The spirit is nocturnal fish, to find the feed at night. Therefore you must give any very bright lamp. You can help the tank with several hiding places such as Bogwood, PVC pipe, rock. Place them fish on 55-gallon tank and facilitate it with water filter and aerator. You can water heater above all you live at subtropical country install.
The behavior of this fish is peaceful, and you can put them on with peaceful fish. Same size should tank-mates or the small fish is this large mouth fish food.
The breed is unknown, but I think that this fish is not with Black Ghost knife fish.

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Moorei cichlids

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Name: Moorei cichlids (Haplochormis Moorei)
Alternative name or alias: Dolphin cichlid, blue Moori
Family: cichlid fish (Cihlidae)
Habitat: Lake Malawi, African
Size: 3.6 inch or 9 cm
Life expectancy: 12-15 years
Tank area: end of the tank
Diet: Carnivore
Temperature: 76-82 degrees F (C)
PH: 7.8 and 8.6
Hardness: 10-15 dGH
Minimum tank required: 70 gallons
Compatible friend: slightly aggressive cichlids, Cory cat, Plecos and Syndotis WELS
Kennel Name: Fetus mouth Brooder
Temperament: aggressive

Moorei cichlids are a family of cichlid fish (cichlids). The body shape is similar to common cichlids that have oval and wide body. 9 Cm or 3.6 inch reach the length. The life span is quite long for a medium size cichlid or 18 years.
Now is the male color blue. The fish has nuchal hump, similar with Dolphin. That is why some people call it the dolphin.
The behavior is so aggressive, so is this fish not good for Community fish. You can attack and harass smaller fish.

How to care it:
Put it in the 55-gallon tank fish and facilitate it with water filter and aerator. You can water heater above all you live at subtropical country install. Your tank can keep warm the aerator. As a common cichlid, the Moorei need some hiding place. Decorate your tank with some hiding places such as Bogwood, PVC pipe, rock. The hiding place is a House for them. The tank can give you fine substrate in the bottom.

Kennel Name:
Make a harem with 5 to 7 women for a male. The best ways for breeding is, when a group of Moorei fish containing eight small Moorei. The females will keep the eggs at the mouth until 12 to 18 days or two weeks.

Feeding
The Moorei is omnivorous, as they have food such as Tubifex, Artemia, Bloodworms and ocean fleshy plankton,

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Livingstoni cichlid

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Name: Livingstoni (NimboCHromis LIvingstoni)
Alternative name or alias:-.
Family: cichlid fish (Cihlidaediae)
Habitat: Lake Malawi, African
Size: 8 inch or 20 cm
Life expectancy: 10 years
Tank area: bottom of the tank or down Dweller
Diet: Omnivorous
Temperature: 74-79 degrees F (24-26 C)
PH: 7.5 to 8.5
Hardness: 10-18 dGH
Minimum tank required: 70 gallons
Compatible friend: other Malawi Mbuna cichlids
Kennel Name: Fetus mouth Brooder
Temperament: aggressive

Livingstoni cichlids is a family of cichlid fish (cichlids). The name is similar to the British evangelist David Livingstone. The body is slender, with large head relative to its body. 20 Cm or 8 inch reach the length. This is the longest Malawi cichlids, I think. The life span is quite long for a medium size cichlid or 18 years.
The color of his fish is brown with Brown stain like rock. This fish has ability to camouflage because this fish skin with rocky pattern is similar. We can see thin gold color at the edge of the fin. The male is coloured than the female.
The behavior is so aggressive, so is this fish not good for Community fish. This fish is best kept in the same types of containers. You will harass other fish in particular small fish. Livingstoni has rarely hunting method. It act as small fish dies, to win. If small fish close its reach, it will attack the small fish.

How to care it:
Make a home comfort for them with 70 gallon tanks. Set Bogwood, PVC pipe, rock for hiding place. Also, you put sand and substrate such as its nature in Africa. Facilitate the tanks with water filters, aerators and water heater.
Kennel Name:
The cichlids are polygamy fish; Therefore, you may receive several women for a male. Hold since young. Females hold eggs at the mouth up to three weeks or 21 to 24 days. The female lays typically 100 eggs in each race.

Feeding
Livingstoni is an omnivore, the protein-rich food need. Feed with small fish, Tubifex, insect larvae, krill, frozen foods and pellets. Livingstoni may also spinach, peas, lettuce and Courgette.

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