Jack Dempsey Fish – Cichlid Care Tank Guide

Aquarium jack Dempsey Fish Care can be easy. I would make sure you feed your fish a good food though. Spend a couple extra dollars and get NorthFin. Here is a link:

NorthFin Cichlid Food:

Added fish talk and commentary:
I’ve had him for about 2years. Its started having some sort of panic attack recently. It would freak out with the slightest noise in the tank. Today it died and there was a white substance coming out of its anus.(Not stringy white poop). Anybody had this issue with their fish?

Any ideas?? Setting up tank at new house and using the API freshwater test kit I just realized my tap water has a higher ammonia level then the tank I am trying to cycle. Tank levels read in between .25ppm to .50ppm

I have had 2 clown loaches in the 90 gallon tank for 2 weeks and they appear to be doing fine. Used fluval biological enhancer to jump start cycle. Any suggestions. I use fx6 fluval filter. Most popular food for mines too. They like northfin and Spectrum too but theirs favorite is carnivore spirulina.

I use it along with NLS and Northfin. It’s all i use with fry too small for the .5 mm pellets. Being a spirulina flake I’d expect the first ingredient to be just that but unfortunately that isn’t the case. It has too much flour, starch & yeast for me to feed this. I’d pass on this, pellets are superior than flakes btw.

Salmon Fish Meal, Spirulina Algae Meal, Soy Flour, Wheat Flour, Brewers Dried Yeast, Corn Starch, Dried Krill Meal, Shrimp Meal, Plankton Meal, Lecithin, Vegetable Oil, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Vitamin E Supplement, Stabilized Vitamin C.

They can’t digest to much of spirulina, everything above 6% spirulina in fish food is nonsense. I feed flakes for my mbuna, Sera flora it is what works best for me and what importers (in Europe) do use along with one other one for their imported wild caughts. “Spirulina lacks cellulose cell walls and therefore do not requires chemical or processing in order to become digestible. The digestibility is 83 – 84 %. Spirulina is regarded as a rich source of protein, vitamins, essential mineral, amino acids, EFFA like gamma LNA and antioxidant pigments like carotenoids.”

I’ve also just learned, that spirulina is actually not a plant it bacteria, also know as Cyanobacteria which we are trying to fight if it appears in our tanks. Maybe we need to reconcider this. So without a report or study, knowing this now it does seem to appear that it can’t be entirely good, feeding bacteria with chlorophyll in high amounts to limnivorem/omnivore and herbivore fish.

How about jewel cichlids in a mbuna tank? i have had them in my tank for couple years they paired up and keep to them selves , i have a 125 with mbuna haps and peacocks. Sounds like you can from what others are saying but a quick search makes it seem like you should keep them in a different tank since they do better in water that is slightly cooler and slightly more acidic.

Should they not be in because it’s seen as not being natural or because it’s like to get aggressive? From my reading the can get pretty agressive too. Hard for me to really say because all my info is straight from the interwebs and you can’t always trust some of those sites 100%

That’s why I thought I’d put it out there before I moved them over. Might give it a go for a couple of hours and see how it goes. Mark, Yep, I believe that is the same thing I put in my post. When you read it several places it does seam to be a little more legit. I’m not really familiar with Jewels though. I try to keep my tank Malawi specific.

Also, the lines for what you can do and what you should do are often blurred in this hobby and different for every enthusiast. I don’t judge what others do and I always try to make clear that my opinion is just that. Just because I think one way doesn’t mean anyone else has to and I won’t hold it against anyone for thinking my way isn’t right for them.

they arent as aggressive as the bigger 1s. the only time they get aggressive is when they have fry but still no match against the bigger fish that end up killing them. They may do fine. In an all male tank where he can’t pair up and mate, should be fine. Don’t listen to everyone else with all this don’t mix lakes stuff. By that theory you shouldn’t put any fish from different bodies together. All fish react different. If there is problems, rehome and try something different.

Not a good idea, mine ended up dead because of malnutrition. Couldn’t keep up and got picked on. I’ve seen it work fine. If the Jewels breed, there may be aggression issues. Some African species may be too passive to hold their own. Personally I wouldn’t. Jewels need a pH around 7.5 but they can handle the 8.2 of a Malawi tank.

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