Malawi Tank

Want some active colorful fishes. Keep Malawi cichlids, the most colorful freshwater fishes. Below are some photos from my malawi tank. In Kolkata you can get many options of malawi cichlids in Galiff Street market.

 

Convict Cichlids, the easiest cichlid to breed

Convict Cichlid, the best beginner cichlid:
If you have a 20gallon tank, you can easily think of keeping cichlid fishes, never before kept any of them. Then try Convict cichlids, Amatitlania (Archocentrus) nigrofasciata. Fairly easy fish to take care of, water chemistry is never an issue for this fishes, the pocket sized monsters who can stand against a fish twice of its size. Even there are instances where a mated pair of convicts kill a twice sized oscar fish kept in the same tank. But I will recommend to first time go with a species specific tank, that is a tank with convicts only.

The albino pair of mine, the front one is the male

Classification of Convict Cichlids:
Order: Perciformes
Family: Cichlidae
Genera: Amatitlania (Archocentrus)
Species: nigrofaciata