The Beginners Forum

[Randy]

G,day everyone and Merry Xmas from the Great White North. This really a great looking forum.I,m new to this particular aspect of the fish world so I hope I can count on you guys . I,m gonna start up my very first tank for Cichlids ,just as soon as I feel ready to go for it. (Oh great - - - - another fish hobby). The wife is gonna kill me ! ! !

[SGypsyMermaid]

welcome randy! not that i'm biased or anything, but i think you should be looking at african lake cichlids :wink:

[Scotty]

Welcome aboard! This is the best Cichlid Forum around :wink:

[jo]

Hi there....i just got myself some cichlid ... thought I might as well get to know more of this fishes.....

I have 2 orange and 1 blue with black stripes ... really no idea what they are....they were gifts from my gf....

I noticed that there 2 orange ones were forever swimming and chasing each other.....is that normal? Whilst the blue one is always at the bottom of the tank mostly just there....

Jo

[agez]

Randy: hey man, welcome to the site n all, just a tip....save yourself the cash on constant upgrades for years and just buy a BIG 150gal plus with some big satisfying intelegent hand feeding owner recognising all american bad boys!
and jo: sounds like they're african but its hard to tell from your description.... maybe a bumblebee and a peacock...or an electric blue? anyways you said you 'just got them from my gf' so their new and just arranging a pecking order its normal. your blue one whatever it is is just getting used to the place n shy, VERY common- will take him3-7 days. as for the orange ones they are either working out wholl be boss for the time being or having sex....both are fine! enjoy your new pets
regards to all -age

[aharris]

Hmmm . . . I was thinking kennyi. Two males, one female. I probably have my sexes mixed up though.

Hey Randy, go with cichlids from Lake Tang. They're something that your guests will never have seen before.

[jo]

hi...thanks for your info...great help..was really worried whether the orange ones are fighting but then again, they are ferocious according some friends of mine. The blue one still sitting at a corner of my tank....i really dont like the orange ones, they chased after my algae eaters.....my poor blue one looks tiny to me comparing it to the orange ones.....Jo

[jennigypsy]

(hey guys...Randy hasn't posted since 2002....)
lol

[aharris]

blah, that's hwat I get for posting when my brain is fried. :)

read more carefully in the future I will attempt to

[jennigypsy]

Originally posted by aharris


read more carefully in the future I will attempt to

..yes, Yoda...

LOLOLOLOL
(just havin' fun :) )

[Glaive]

seems there is a new user who could use to not respond to any posts of an anchient variety as was suggested to them in private ;)