How to Keep Mbuna Cichlids | Care Guide & Species Profile

How to Keep Mbuna Cichlids | Care Guide & Species Profile. We have a wide variety of cichlids, from African to American cichlids, and in today's video, we focus on keeping Mbuna cichlids from Lake Malawi.

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[cosmicshy]

Yay! Thanks for this video! I have them & they are such beautiful & cool little fish. Pretty easy to care for & fun to watch. I have some peacocks in there, too & they've done well together for over a year now. The mbunas even had a few babies along the way. The nerite snails keep things tidied up nice.
It's always best to research things alot beforehand & keep a super close eye once you have them in the tank.

[taeferguson]

Great Great Great content and information provided on the specific fish care and tank set up!

[Shadow-wnfw]

Great video. I have an all-male mbuna tank. I have subscribed to your channel.

[chillwills]

Thanks for the video, love your mbunas set up beautiful fish, keep up the great content, I have 1 white zebra mbuna with my peacocks and he is far more inteligente then the rest very active likes to decorate the tank set up. Awsome personality.

[jcfishninerlif]

Great info I hope to do a set up of this awesome cichlids 👍❤️it

[caseyruegsegger]

Awesome video. Thinking about setting up my first African tank. Thank you!

[DjPosey]

I keep a mixed tank of peacocks haps and Mbuna but I'm slowly removing all of the mbuna from the tank as I believe that most of the aggression definitely comes from the mbunas and I'd like to see if it'll help some of the peas and haps color up better due to less aggression.. Great Video bros!

[legionaquatics]

I was planning on getting something else for my new tank but when I went into the mbuna isle at my lfs it made me want some so badly so ill probably go with them, I really liked the demasoni babies I saw.

[mikech]

I am growing my mbuna now, will mix them with some Lake Victoria haps. I read it can be done, will see how it goes, the victorians have more color.

[tulioalopez]

Do you guys use seachem cichlid lake salt or fritz aquatics rift lake cichlid salt?

[beat_]

I have 3 Mbunas Lemon, Citrine and Bumble (Yellow labs and Auratus) along with Blue Acara Icey, Rare Turkana Jewel, Cookie (OB Peacock) and Loonie and the rest (Convicts)

[alfredodeeric]

Also just curious if you've got any good sources for mbuna type and care info

[tulioalopez]

is an fluval fx6 and aquaclear 110 good enough for a mbuna in a 75 gallons? I only have 5 but i found a breeder of yellow lab and planing to add about 10 more. Thank you

[Myfishyprogress]

@cichlidbros do you have a link i can find black aragonite sand I really love the black substrate

[michaelhaines]

Great video. When you were feeding the flakes, did you leave the Tidal running? I always lose too many flakes to the pesky surface skimmer. Keep up the great content!

[Don-mdtt]

Can yellow lab keep with rummy nose or angel fish? Ty

[tulioalopez]

Hi Can tou keep the yellow labs with Cobalt Blue Zebra Cichlid? I was told they are very aggressive.

[MuhammadYasir-]

Whether gallons is important or size of the tank is important for keeping mbuna? 55 gallon is 4 feet long, and 60 gallon is 3 feet long but width is high. Which one to prefer?

[victorlozano]

How many small Mbuna can you put in 40 breeder tank

[tatesreptileworld]

How many can you keep in a 40 gallon breeder ??