Ice Blue Zebra vs Red Zebra cichlid fight

[TheAtheistAussie]

Haha the random rainbow fish

[Anjelic36]

Great video, lovely fish. Yours isn't a Cobalt Blue Zebra though (metriaclima callianos), it's a metriaclima estherae male (Red Zebra Blue). I have both. My LFS missold me an estherae as a callianos (I thought I was getting a possible breeding pair), but cobalts don't have any barring. Males are a pure ice blue colour and the females turn lavendar. When they're young the barring is so faint easy to mistake for cobalts. Have a look on the net and you'll see. I had to find out for myself :-(

[justinmartin93]

When the blue zebra was young how did he look?

[TheLeftylegend14]

i've got an albino rainbow shark and it hasn't grown any, any tips for feeding or anything.

[09ShaunM]

What is its den made of?

[J22R22]

The colbalt blue zebra is it omnivore or herbivores?

[crisp330]

@J22R22 they are omnivores

[xAliv3]

How big is the tank and what fish do you have in there? Rainbow sharks can survive with cichlids?

[adevict2]

@xAliv3 ya that's what I was thinking about that rainbow shark I didn't know they could be in with cichlids cause it didn't look scared

[Klethix]

hey do u know what kind of cichlids u can put with an oscar?

p.s, very nice tank

[FJqattan]

i have a blue/red zebra with 2 small oscars and a green terror in one tank, they get along all together

[mtgallo]

untill the oscar grows my oscar grew huge and ran everything out of the tank and they ended up on my floor

[FishBoy416]

there not fighting they are mating

[ed68coug]

no, they are fighting bro. The mating dance takes place when the male shimmys & they go round in circles.

[Fish1432]

will big cichlids kill little cichlids because i got mine yesterday and when i woke up today it was dead on the gravel

[crisp330]

Yea, they can and will definitely kill each other... but your fish could have also died of any number of other causes. If it was killed by another fish it would most likely have some marks on him where he got attacked.

[cichlidiot94]

I've got 6 african cichlids crammed in a ten gallon, they're still small though (<3in.). I'm moving them to a 125 gallon within a month or so.

[sadm1234]

Nice Video

[tcfuturevet]

def not kenyi. no way

[smartass2st]

na i have a kenyi and a red zebra. You can definatly tell the two body types apart when you actually have the 2 in the same tank. That blue one is definatly a zebra.

[urdesire1127]

i like your fishes what diferent kind of fish do you have?

[crisp330]

Thanks. Check out my other video Mixed Cichlids & Friends #2. It lists all the fish and shows most of them.

[Eamonn33]

How big is the tank?

[crisp330]

thats a 55 gallon they're in

[crisp330]

Ah, nice to know. I got him as a baby (like less than a half inch), I always just figured it was a Kenyi

[Eamonn33]

Ya, I see what you mean, it doesnt have the few thick stripes of a kenyi

[lxldutchifiedlxl]

yea thats definitely not a kenyi and if it was it wouldnt be a "he" it would be a "she", because the males turn a yellow/golden color while the females retain the blue and the fish looks as though if it were a kenyi it woulda been old enough to have gone through the change

[clap5]

That's not a kenyi...it's a blue "red" zebra (male)...most likely wild caught.