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Profile and Description of Central America Cichlids

PARACHROMIS LOISELLEI

 

Profile:

Distribution : Central America, Costa Rica, Nicaragua & Panama.

Size : Up to 12 inches, females slightly smaller.

Temperature : 230 to 29 0

PH : 6.8 to 7.2.

Hardness : Slightly hard to slightly alkaline water. 

Diet : Live food, Small fish, Flake, freeze fried & frozen and pellet food.

Breeding :  Bi-parentally Custodial Open Spawner. Parents normally cleans the spawning site dig a crater after the eggs have been deposited on the spawning site, and move the fry to the crater as soon as they emerge from the eggs. 

Sexual Difference : Males are generally bigger with nochal hump when mature, female are rounder.

 

Description:

One of the more aggressive fish, they prefer aquarium with vegetation and bog wood. The yellow body and black markings are striking especially during breeding and the parents hovering over the fires is a sight to behold. A aquarium of minimum 50 Gal. is a necessity for them to thrive.

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See other profiles of Central America Cichlids

Sajica Cichlid
Argentea
Nicaragua Cichlid
Red Devil
Convict Cichlid
Loisellei
Firemouth
Bifasciatum
Salvani
Blue Dempesy (Cichlasoma Octofasciatum)


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