Reply With QuoteI saw some fish recently that look like cichlid. IT is called chromide and it also looks like those fish we eat during chinese new year. They look interesting to me, something quite different also. Are they hard to keep? are they really cichlid?
I saw some fish recently that look like cichlid. IT is called chromide and it also looks like those fish we eat during chinese new year. They look interesting to me, something quite different also. Are they hard to keep? are they really cichlid?
I saw some fish recently that look like cichlid. IT is called chromide and it also looks like those fish we eat during chinese new year. They look interesting to me, something quite different also. Are they hard to keep? are they really cichlid?
I saw some fish recently that look like cichlid. IT is called chromide and it also looks like those fish we eat during chinese new year. They look interesting to me, something quite different also. Are they hard to keep? are they really cichlid?
I saw some fish recently that look like cichlid. IT is called chromide and it also looks like those fish we eat during chinese new year. They look interesting to me, something quite different also. Are they hard to keep? are they really cichlid?
the chormides are the only asian representatives of the cichlidae family.
There are 3 species of them, in the genus Etroplus. they are E.maculatus, E.Suratensis and E.Canarensis.
You probably had encountered either the Maculatus (orange chromide) or the Suratensis (Green)
It was suggested that they had derived from salt-tolerating primitive forms (tilapia-like ancestors) that had evolved along the african coasts, up till the persian gulf area and along western india.
them together with the madagascan cichlids are closer to the original stem line than the rest of the cichlids in mainlain africa and also the neotropicals in central and south america.a pretty "primitive" cichlid.
they have good salt tolerance, and in fact, prefer brackish. They are also sometimes found in full salt in the wild. Of all 3 of them , only the orange chromide will do ok in freshwater.
In any case, they are pretty hardy fish provided their needs are understood.
You can actually set up a nice brackish estuarine kind of biotope, with archer fish or even mud skippers as tankmates. plenty of hanging roots or wood will make them feel very at home.
They can be aggressive to one another outside breeding time.
Yes they can be bred in captivity (but i havent done that)
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