chocolates are not the fastest growing cichlids, especially if you have oscars, nothing ime grows near as fast as an oscar, and everything else look almost retarded
@MariaS, At what stage were you able to sex your Chocolates? I have the 6 youngsters in my tank. And want to thin them down to a pair asap.
@Reedfish..... I cant say for sure that I have sexed them... I bought 3... At first all was ok then two were best mates and one started bulling the third one very badly I took the one that was being terrorised out and put him with my 2 Oscars and Severums an he is very happy there The other two remained together and love each other so..... I assumed that the problem was being 2 males I am not sure how old they are.. I will take some pictures of the 2 and the one I had to move.... maybe that can help you and you can see difference
I sometimes see 2 of my youngsters "squaring up" I guess those would be males. But they all look more or less the same, so after swimming around the tank among the others, have lost track of who us who :blink:
Chocolates are AWESOME fish - very friendly if you have them from small. Yours are beautiful, enjoy them . . .
My Uaru started picking at the Rays, and then the Chocolates really started attacking them. Had to remove both types unfortunately.
Ai, some you win, some you loose - thats part of the WONDER and AWE in nature and our hobby . . . Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk
I saw Emerald cichlids at our LFS,do you guys know if they are the same as Chocolate cichlids?Unfortunately they do not have a scientific name,and they are still very small.
