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Originally Posted by dhawes
Yeah I've heard cichlid tank = no plants. But part of me is determined to try and make it work. That's a good point regarding the sand. In my old tank I had way more sand that was "aquascaped" by my blue zebra. Everyday I would come home to a new mountain of sand somewhere haha. I will do that today.
Do you have any recommendations where to get that wood?
I'm also concerned about my 2 jewels. Had them for a week now and they haven't eaten / shown interest until yesterday when I bought/tried bloodworms as an alternative from flakes.
Problem with bloodworms is all the other cichlids are so greedy, it's hard to sprinkle them to get the jewels fed without fearing overfeeding everyone else.
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Hmmm. Trying to remember the last place I bought that wood. Most fish stores should have a decent selection. Keep in mind some places sell the wood by weight, so if you don't see a price, ask them how much it will be.
Good call on adding more sand
I always had a variety of food for my cichlids. If I fed them flake food, I would always throw in some sinking tablets of some kind. Gives the non-pigs a chance to eat, while the hogs are at the trough
My standby was -and still is- tubifex worms (namely the freeze dried ones). Fish go apeshit for them, especially cichlids. One thing I usually do, instead of sticking peices to the side of the glass, I would hold a peice in my fingers (sometimes the fish would eat from my fingers, which was cool) until it dissolved more or less. This keeps one fish from swimming away with one big chunk. Instead it's more of a free-for-all lol.