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our Mexican cichlid tank

Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:48 pm
by nijlpaard
Here are just 2 movies of our new built (last summer) Mexican cichlid tank.

Enjoy! :wink:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_ftaGRm6tI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m4PNeVjRSQ


The last movie is from this year.


Species that I keep are:

Amphilophus macracanthus "Rio Niltepec" F0/F1, Chuco intermedium "Rio Chacamax" F0, exCichlasoma pearsei "Rio Lacanjah" F1,
Rocio octofasciatum "Rio Lacanjah" F0 and Thorichthys meeki "Rio Candelaria" F1.

Re: our Mexican cichlid tank

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 8:42 pm
by glenna
That is a REALLY nice tank....very relaxing and laid back for a cichlid tank.

The videography was also very nice. Sometimes when you watch a video of someone's tank, they have a background of loud, distracting music. This was so nicely done!

Thanks for sharing

Re: our Mexican cichlid tank

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 1:57 am
by dietpepsi
Your aquarium is amazing! I wish I had the room to set up a cichlid tank like that. I have always loved the look of the Central American/Mexican Vieja species. Vieja argentea would look great in your tank. Anyways, thanks for sharing. If you have any more videos or photos please share!

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Mike McEwan
My tropical fish page

Re: our Mexican cichlid tank

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 6:15 am
by Joao M
A perfect tank!
Congratulations on the achievement.

Re: our Mexican cichlid tank

Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 3:10 pm
by nijlpaard
And my latest movie, testing my camera a bit :wink:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=NL&v=_qPAyLlcgR8

Re: our Mexican cichlid tank

Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 1:00 pm
by starsplitter7
Really lovely fish and aquarium. About what size are your fish (or your largest fish to give me a little bit of scale). Is it difficult for you to obtain North/South American fish?

Re: our Mexican cichlid tank

Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 2:20 pm
by nijlpaard
The length of our largest fish (exCichlasoma pearsei, male) is about 40cm.

Most of the other fish (Chuco intermedium, Amphilophus macracanthus and Rocio octofasciatum)
will almost reach a length of 30cm.

Some of them will reach a length of 17cm (Thorichtys meeki) :wink:

Re: our Mexican cichlid tank

Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 11:31 am
by starsplitter7
Wow! So in the range of 6-18". Really lovely tanks.

Re: our Mexican cichlid tank

Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 4:29 pm
by nijlpaard

Re: our Mexican cichlid tank

Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 1:40 pm
by nijlpaard
A lot of fry of our Chuco intermediums :D


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_Yeez0ek5I