Having trouble getting your breeding pair of cichlids to spawn? Subtle changes in your water may do the trick. Below are five water change strategies that might help.
Strategies for inducing cichlid breeding behavior
pH
Hassle free water parameter maintenance for cichlids
As the title of this post states, this is about taking the effort out of maintaining certain water parameters. Why? For many hobbyists, chasing such parameters as hardness and pH makes fish keeping a lot of hassle. The easiest solution? Keep the species that work best in the water you have. Whether you’re on municipal water or well water, there are cichlid species that will live and thrive in what you have. In fact, find out before you purchase your fish what water they were bred/kept in.