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The parameters for what qualifies as your "favorite cichlid" is all up to you. Write down (linking is optional) on here what your favorite specie is. With that in mind: what's your favorite cichlid? Mine is the Firemouth Cichlid.

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I picked up two Bolvian Rams which I like very much. I've only had my tank for about four months and they're my first Cichlids. At first I had my eyes on some German Blue Rams but they weren't as active as the Bolivians. They were more like pretty statues.

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Saint Paul, Minnesota USA 20g Freshwater Started June 10th 2008
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I've heard those are some of the most peaceful cichlids out there, next to the Keyhole Cichlid. I'm actually considering adding one to my 10 gal. setup.

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Multifasciatus (multies), these little shell dwellers are so interesting to watch.

I love that they don't grow too big.

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my fav cichlid is a dovii, red terror, or a barred midas cichlid.

I like Riri response, gotta love the large CA's. Dovi would probably me my fav that I have never had the opportunity of owning or seeing in person. RD is my fav that I have actually owned.

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I've heard those are some of the most peaceful cichlids out there, next to the Keyhole Cichlid. I'm actually considering adding one to my 10 gal. setup.

They're very well mannered. They even seem gentle when nibbling my otos that get too close to their eggs. I wish they'd be more aggressive towards the punk Danios. They mostly ignore them. Guess the don't want to stoop to their level.

The Danios are in for a big surprise though. I setup a 10g tank to keep them to give the Ram babies some time to grow up. I can't wait to have my 20g filled up with Rams!

Edit: The surprise was mine. I couldn't even catch the smaller Leopard Danios. Used my whole lunch break

Edit: I enlisted my girlfriend who caught 'em faster than I could. I used a small net to scare the Danios from hiding by the Rams and she used the larger net to grab the speedy Danios. The Rams actually helped us by chasing the Danios away from the nest which ran them into our nets. /:'

Saint Paul, Minnesota USA 20g Freshwater Started June 10th 2008
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yea i have owned most cichlids and breed most of them to. but they are not my fav fish and there needs to be a oddball which are my favorites.

1st fav = wild discus
this is my fav wild in my tank



2nd fav = domestic discus
3rd fav = apistogramma
4th fav = african dwarf riverines (eg nigerian red)
3rd fav = mbuna (the dwarves)

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i just cant help but love the big bad boys,red terror,green terror,red devil,wolf cichlid,pretty much any of them,but my very fav,would probly be,wait for it......the much hated FLOWERHORN,in all my years of keeping fish,i still havent come across a fish,so hell bent on fighting and using violence........,that aside,they get to know and PLAY with there owner,like the family dog...

yea i like flowerhorns i had one in with a dovii the dovii was the new one in the tank and he killed the flowerhorn i was sooooooooo mad but wat ever u know thats what cichlids do.

yeah,mine went the oppistie way,i got a large male wolf cichlid,and my female flowerhorn,thrashed him within hours,lucky i got the divider in b4 she killed him,he was the last fish i tryed mixing her with....the damage and death toll was getting to high....but yeah my fav for sure....but they man made,so them aside,probly ether green terror,or red terror....

I am with mnventurer, I love my two Bolivians. They are quite active, and beautiful fish. I have known for months that I would have these beauties. I just had to wait until I had my 55g up and going.

As for a second fave, I really like the Yellow Labs. it would be awesome to have a set up with those some day. Vivid, striking fish.

I am with mnventurer, I love my two Bolivians. They are quite active, and beautiful fish. I have known for months that I would have these beauties. I just had to wait until I had my 55g up and going.

Too bad you don't live closer I'm going to have to find new homes for about 50 Bolivian Rams.

They're such nice fish...

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Did your Bolivian Rams breed? If so, that's awesome and congrats! Hope the rams go to good homes.

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festivium, specifically this one
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o255/thingthing_2006/IMAGE_00006.jpg
photo is a bit old, and blurry. he jumps clean out of the water to take food out of my fingers! i absolutely love him.

2nd fav. this guy is the most badass yellow lab, he is the top fish in the tank, over melanochromis auratus male and females, cobalt blue male, pseudotropheus saulosi male and female, and a 6.5" chinese algae eater!

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o255/thingthing_2006/S6302028.jpg

3rd fav. convict cichlids. i have a pair in my pond, i love watching them from above swimming together around the pond. i think they mighthave fry in one of the rock caves, they seem to hang around there all the time, the male scares away all the other fish (even though they are 10 times biger than him). no photo, though

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oooh, i have so many favorites, its hard to choose.
Out of the cichlids i have kept, im gonna have to go with my nicaraguan cichlid, Hypsophrys nicaraguensis. you just cant beat its colors or its personality.
http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=68

Out of the cichlids i havent yet kept, though, i would have to choose geophagus altifrons http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=430

Geophagus altifrons - Wow!

Saint Paul, Minnesota USA 20g Freshwater Started June 10th 2008
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My vote is tied between discus and texas cichlid, though there a stack of cichlids i would like to own as well