If you have to yellow or purple cichlids you'll get around 3-5years. My African cichlid just died today! (Purple) 6/11/12
African Cichlids are from the Great Rift Lakes of East Africa. Mainly Lake Malawi and Lake Tanganyika.
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Would what get along with African Cichlids?
So. Amer. Cichlid lives in South Amrica and African Cichlids live in lake malawi in africa
African cichlids come from Lake Victoria, Lake Tanyangyika, and Lake Malawi.
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No, African cichlids and goldfish should not be kept together in the same tank because they have different water temperature and habitat requirements. Mixing them can lead to stress, aggression, and potential health issues for both species.
In the wild, African Cichlids eat plants like blue-green algae and organic detritus. These plants are high in fiber, but provide little nutritional content, so cichlids eat continuously to maintain their metabolism.
The Silver Dollar comes from the soft acid waters of the Amazon. They are not at all suited to the hard alkaline water required for African cichlids.
You should NEVER try to mix African Cichlids with Amazonian Cichlids. It simply can not work. If your tank is set up properly for Africans your water conditions will be slowly killing the Oscar. Please for the Oscars sake get it out of there and in future do some homework/research before mixing species together.
African cichlids, barbs, livebearers, synodontis catfish, loaches, cichlids, tetras, mailed catfish, labyrinthfish, and rainbowfish.
African cichlids are PH 8.2 while babrbs are lower. You could acclimate the barb up or the Malawi down in PH but neither would do as well. Also, African cichlids are very aggressive and the barb, who is semi-aggressive, would probably not survive for long.