Keeping a planted tank of this size is a challenge by itself and normally people who keep africans avoid too many plants since there are no plants in their natural habitat. Extra care should be taken as far as water supply and drainage are concerned.
Africans: Refers to freshwater cichlids from Africa. These fish come from the very hard, slightly salty water of the rift lakes.
Age structure: The relative abundance of different age classes in a population.
Feeding Africans
Feeding African Cichlids the right type of foods is very important. African Cichlids have extremely long intestinal tracts, like omnivores, which means that foods (meat, worms etc.) will take a long time to digest.
He likes Africans because of their variety of colouration and size, and the ease of keeping, breeding and raising them (at least the mostly Lake Malawi species he likes).
I'v had my africans for about 6 to 7 months now and they are getting pretty big now. There is five of them and they are not the same kind, any of them. My one had babies but we took out the fry out of the tank to early.
Provide these Africans with plenty of territories by using rocks thoughout the tank. Several fish may be kept per tank providing they all have their own territorial caves.
These beautiful africans are one of the largest aficans with a size of 40 cm not being uncommon. Generally they are very aggressive, even attacking plecos, but as with everything there are always exceptions to the rule.
Other Cichlids - Africans from Lake Tanganyika or Americans, such as species of the Apistogramma genus - lay their eggs in a cavity or small cave, sometimes even on the ceiling, if this is the only suitable place.
Some coral sand is a good addition to an African tank, while white Rift Lake Sand looks great for Africans also but can show up detritus badly. These aspects will be discussed further later.
about these liquid fry food, though, is that the baby fish do extremely well on them; significantly better than on any other kind of non-live food, and not significantly worse than if they do get live food, at least, in our experience with Africans.
I've had peopl > tell me NO, don't use a UGF with Africans. I'm not so sure these people > have even raised Africans before. What do you say? If I shouldn't use > one (UGF), will the fluval be enough filtration?
They seem almost as territorial as the Africans (the other tank) Maybe Discus keepers under estimate the Discus.... they are alot tougher than we think maybe......... From: Chris
Date:05/04/2006 ...
8 (Africans) to 8.4 (marine fish and corals). Most species have specific comfort bands that should be used when breeding is important. Otherwise, most fish will be relatively comfortable close to the neutral ranges.
Ted breeds a number of different species, especially West Africans. Check out his personal site linked above to see what he currently has available. Of course, I recommend you drop him an Email as he might have fish that are not listed on his site.
Description
The Zebra was one of the first Africans imported into the hobby. Its'in kept it one of the most popular fish from the great rift lakes.
Red Top Zebra Diet
live food,my take flake
Size ...
The Amazonian fish and some of the SE Asians and riverine Africans come from waters of low TDS- yes, the water would read low in GH, but a lab reading of sodium would be low as well, where ion exchange resins lower GH by markedly increasing sodium.
Diet:Flakes with a treat of Bloodworms and brine shrimp sometimes.
Tank minimum:10 gal.
Cautions:As with most africans can be sensitive to water conditions.
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The orthologous gene was then characterized in humans and a one base pair difference was found to segregate strongly between fair skinned Europeans and dark skinned Africans.
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