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Salvin’s Cichlid (Nandopsis salvini)
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Tue June 14, 2005
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100% of reviewers
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$9.99
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10.0
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Description:
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Compatibility: Aggressive
Maximum Size: Male 7 inches Female 5 inches
Minimum Tank Size: 40gal
Temperature: 76-80F
Diet: Omnivore
Level of care: Easy
General Notes: Considered by many to be a mini guatope, it certainly has the attitude to prove it. This fish is aggressive and territorial and will often dispatch of fish much larger than themselves. However these fish are not likely to go looking for fights, they tend to keep to themselves, but any fish that comes into their territory will likely get a beating. Therefore tankmates should be chosen with care, other robust Central American cichlids make good companions for this fish such as the jack dempsey and green terror. Plecos can also be used. Males of this species are larger than the females, have pointed dorsal and anal fins and are more intensely coloured, although both sexes look stunning when breeding. Females also have a black patch on their gill plate whereas males don’t. Naturally a predator, but will eat a wide variety of foods in the aquarium such as pellets, bloodworms and insects aswell as raw vegatables such as lettuce, spinach, and peas. Breeding is fairly easy, the female will lay around 500 eggs and both parents will take excellent care of the eggs and fry.
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Author
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phOOey
Super Fish
Registered: October 2003
Location: Nottingham, UK
Posts: 1729
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Review Date: Tue June 14, 2005
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Would you recommend the profile? Yes |
Price you paid?: $9.99
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Pros:
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colourful, interactive, intelligant
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Cons:
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aggressive, reclusive
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this is one of the most colourful of the cichlids in my opinion. when you first introduce them to a tank you may find that they will stay hidden, this fish is quite reclusive unless given sufficent cover. sometimes the fish will become confortable in a matter of hours and start swimming round happily, but in some cases (like mine) it can take months for this fish to finally feel comfortable with its surroundings.
the salvin\'s cichlid is not the biggest cichlid but can certainly hold its own against most other commonly kept aggressive cichlids. it will eat cichlid pellets as well as live food such as bloodworms. it will also eat live feeder fish, as in the wild it eats almost exclusively smaller fish.
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