How to Keep Mbuna Cichlids | Care Guide & Species Profile 

Mbuna need more of a vegetable based diet than most cichlids. We use spirulina flakes: geni.us/ByXSoL

Yay! Thanks for this video! I have them & they are such beautiful & cool little fish. Pretty easy to care for & fun to watch. I have some peacocks in there, too & they've done well together for over a year now. The mbunas even had a few babies along the way. The nerite snails keep things tidied up nice. It's always best to research things alot beforehand & keep a super close eye once you have them in the tank.

Love the colors. 😊

Awesome video. Thinking about setting up my first African tank. Thank you!

Thanks for the video, love your mbunas set up beautiful fish, keep up the great content, I have 1 white zebra mbuna with my peacocks and he is far more inteligente then the rest very active likes to decorate the tank set up. Awsome personality.

Great Great Great content and information provided on the specific fish care and tank set up!

Great info I hope to do a set up of this awesome cichlids 👍❤️it

Great video. I have an all-male mbuna tank. I have subscribed to your channel.

I keep a mixed tank of peacocks haps and Mbuna but I'm slowly removing all of the mbuna from the tank as I believe that most of the aggression definitely comes from the mbunas and I'd like to see if it'll help some of the peas and haps color up better due to less aggression.. Great Video bros!

Awesome video!!

Great video. When you were feeding the flakes, did you leave the Tidal running? I always lose too many flakes to the pesky surface skimmer. Keep up the great content!

Whether gallons is important or size of the tank is important for keeping mbuna? 55 gallon is 4 feet long, and 60 gallon is 3 feet long but width is high. Which one to prefer?

Awesome video. I currently have a 125 with various mbuna species. I have one male and one female OB and they breed every few weeks. I separate the holding female into a 20 gal and have her release the fry when ready

I am growing my mbuna now, will mix them with some Lake Victoria haps. I read it can be done, will see how it goes, the victorians have more color.

is an fluval fx6 and aquaclear 110 good enough for a mbuna in a 75 gallons? I only have 5 but i found a breeder of yellow lab and planing to add about 10 more. Thank you

I have 3 Mbunas Lemon, Citrine and Bumble (Yellow labs and Auratus) along with Blue Acara Icey, Rare Turkana Jewel, Cookie (OB Peacock) and Loonie and the rest (Convicts)

How many small Mbuna can you put in 40 breeder tank

Hi Can tou keep the yellow labs with Cobalt Blue Zebra Cichlid? I was told they are very aggressive.

I was planning on getting something else for my new tank but when I went into the mbuna isle at my lfs it made me want some so badly so ill probably go with them, I really liked the demasoni babies I saw.

Can yellow lab keep with rummy nose or angel fish? Ty

I have a 75g African chiclid tank. My big pleco gets picked on by my Mbunas but the pleco ain't scared. He fights back. Luckily it doesn't last long. The pleco is like an armored tank.

How do I tell the difference between male and female electric blue johannis, I also ha e two Electric yellow cichlids, and a orange chromide cichlid, I have tried the pellets but their mouths are to smash to eat them, si I ha e been using fish flakes

I have little to no experience owning fish and yesterday my mom brought home two electric cichlids because the aquarium at her workplace broke. Since it was not planned for us to get fish I dont even own the basics. Basically im looking for low a budget aquarium setup to begin with and advice regarding pH and water conditions. Actually this morning one of them died propably because of the shock or change in water??

Also just curious if you've got any good sources for mbuna type and care info

Any-tips on getting these guys to colour up faster? I have a male halo reef that is dull. It’s not sick or anything. Would I need to get more females? Currently have 1

I'm getting ready to tear down my 55 Gallon planted tank. And I'm gonna go back and do a mbuna settup. What would you aim for, for a total number of fish?

I'm having problems feeding my all mbuna tank. They will not come to the top to get the food. Is that normal? Also what do you call over stocked for a 55? I will be adding 2 more white labs bringing the total to 11. Should I add more and is that close to being over stocked for a 55?

I have a colony of 15 Saulosi that I plan to move from my 55 to a 75 soon and I’m not in love with my substrate. My substrate is a black african cichlid sand but I don’t like how coarse it is. What kind of substrate did you use for the classroom Mbuna tank?

So should the whole substrate be crushed Coral or the aragonite sand 100%?

How many can you keep in a 40 gallon breeder ??

can Mbuna and convict cichlids be tank mates?

What is the best substrate for mbunas as of now I'm having aragonite sand

Can I keep a demasoni cichlid with a angle fish in a 50 gallon tank

Is it better to keep all African cichlids in all male tanks unless trying to breed them? In groups aswell?

I put pvc pipes in my tank and my mbuna won't leave it often, other than searching for food. Might be because i have a Jack Dempsey in with him, who likes to annoy the mbuna. Had a question; i also have many rocks but i need to remove them for now swim space for the Dempsey. Will it be ok if i took out all the rocks and left the Dempsey's cave and the mbunas pipes only?

Mbuna is a ridiculously aggressive fish that I have, they are fearless fish and even charge and damage my Blood Parrot fish nip fins/tails, etc, I highly recommend not keeping them on a 4ft tank they need more space and hideouts otherwise only the great fighter will survive. Last year I bought 15 Mbunas now I only have 1🤪

It's not east africa

In a 55 gallon Ambuna tank only species how many can you keep