Learn The Truth About Colourful Cichlid Fish Types In The Next 60 Seconds.

With the growing popularity of cichlid fish, if you are interested in getting into cichlid keeping, you may be bewildered because of numerous species of cichlid. Cichlid fish are one of those fishes who have numerous species such as Malawi cichlids, dwarf cichlids, huge cichlids, aggressive cichlids and many more in the list. To resolve your confusion we have made a list for you that will help you to choose the perfect colourful cichlid fish types for home aquariums.

3 Most colourful cichlid fish types

To help you out we have compiled and brought a list of the top 3 most colourful cichlid fish types. We have dug out all parts of the world for various tank sizes and varied aggression levels.

Discus fish (Symphysodon genus)

Discus fish is recognised as ‘holy grail’ by most of the Aquarists. They are likely to Angelfish. Discus fish is regarded as the king of cichlids, not only the king of cichlids but I guess they should be the king of aquarium fish. The reason behind this thought is that taking care of discus fish is extremely difficult; it includes all sorts of specific requirements. I suggest that if you are a beginner, then you should not opt for discus fish because it will become difficult for a beginner to look after discus fish properly.

But a question arises here is that, can only experience aquarists keep discus fish?

The answer is absolute, no. If you follow their care guidelines and keep your discus fish healthy and happy, then you can go with discus fish.

What points one should keep in mind while taking care of discus fish-

• Discus fish requires hot water that should need to be soothing and slightly acidic.
• One should also be very careful while choosing tankmates, because as we know that discus fish are quite aggressive. So, we prefer to keep calm fishes as their tankmates, for example, hatchet fish.
• One should also need to be careful while adding plants because not all plants satisfy the above conditions.
• The cichlid fish tank size should be minimum 40+ gallons for one confirmed pair.

Electric Blue Cichlid (Sciaenochromis Fryeri)

Electric blue cichlids are Malawi cichlid species and are also known as electric blue haps. The males of this species can catch your attention at the very first moment. But keep in mind that if you are planning to keep blue cichlid fish, then you will have to get multiple females for every single male to avoid any breeding stress. The idle ration for male and female should be 1:3.

What points one should keep in mind while taking care of Electric Blue Cichlid-

• Hard water with a basic pH level is the necessity to keep these fishes.
• It is essential to keep sandy substrate and Rock mounds in the tank.
• They are not extremely aggressive but can eat small fishes.
• The size of the cichlid fish tank should be 70+ gallons.

Yellow Lab Cichlid (Labidochromis Caeruleus)

When we are discussing the colourful cichlids then how can we not include Lake Malawi Yellow Lab Cichlid. This mouthbrooding yellow cichlid fish is also known as electric yellow cichlid, and the most impressive thing about this kind of cichlid is that aquarists widely appreciate them for its calm and peaceful nature. They are considered as community proof. But please ensure to keep a few females for every single male.

What points one should keep in mind while taking care of Yellow Lab Cichlid-

• They are quite feisty but are not that bad.
•  Try to keep the pH basic and use hard water and provide light-coloured sandy substrate and a few Rock mounds.
• The size of the cichlid fish tank should be a minimum of 40+ gallons.