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Aggressive predator; keep alone or with large fish.
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Open substrate spawner · Moderate
Open substrate spawner that guards its eggs; considered easy to breed in aquaria, ideally around 25 °C and pH 7.5.
Grow out 6 juveniles and let a pair form; separate the pair if others are harassed.
A 450 L tank with a sponge or gentle filter, flat slate or rocks as spawning surfaces and a tight lid.
Warm, clean water, frequent water changes and protein-rich food.
About 500-700 eggs
Parents move the wrigglers to pits and guard the free-swimming fry; feed newly hatched brine shrimp and crushed flake.
A predatory yellowjacket cichlid from slow rivers and lakes of the Atlantic slope of southern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras; it can enter brackish water. Named after Austrian traveller and botanist Emanuel von Friedrichsthal.
Austrian zoologist Johann Jakob Heckel described this fish in 1840, making it one of the earliest Central American cichlids known to science. The specimens came from Emanuel von Friedrichsthal, an Austrian traveller who explored the region. In the hobby it is often called the yellowjacket cichlid.
First described by Johann J. Heckel in 1840. Named for Named after Austrian traveller Emanuel von Friedrichsthal, who collected in Central America.
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Valid name. Common name yellowjacket cichlid. WARNING: yellowjackets from Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama are Parachromis loisellei (Bussing, 1989), long sold as friedrichsthalii; Fishipedia even lists loisellei as a synonym, but FishBase keeps them separate.
FishBase: Parachromis friedrichsthalii summaryLegacy has no family field.
FishBase: Parachromis friedrichsthalii summaryFishBase 28 cm SL (about 33-35 cm total length), so the legacy 30 cm is within range. Fishipedia gives 25 cm max (length type not stated). No Seriously Fish profile exists.
FishBase: Parachromis friedrichsthalii summary · Fishipedia (with Fédération Française Aquariophilie): Parachromis friedrichsthaliiFishipedia aquarium range matches legacy; FishBase gives a warmer wild range.
Fishipedia (with Fédération Française Aquariophilie): Parachromis friedrichsthalii · FishBase: Parachromis friedrichsthalii summaryLegacy 6.5-8.5 is wider than the only source found.
Fishipedia (with Fédération Française Aquariophilie): Parachromis friedrichsthaliiLegacy has no hardness; Fishipedia natural-habitat GH recorded.
Fishipedia (with Fédération Française Aquariophilie): Parachromis friedrichsthaliiFishipedia minimum 600 L, 150 cm long. Legacy 450 L is below it.
Fishipedia (with Fédération Française Aquariophilie): Parachromis friedrichsthaliiFishipedia says it lives in pairs, minimum 2. Legacy 1. Hobby reference only; treat as a pair recommendation.
Fishipedia (with Fédération Française Aquariophilie): Parachromis friedrichsthaliiFishipedia lists 5 years, but its page states the text comes from its data model and is still being written; not trusted. Legacy 10-12 years unsourced.
Fishipedia (with Fédération Française Aquariophilie): Parachromis friedrichsthaliiFishipedia rates behaviour 'moyennement agressif' (moderately aggressive) but strongly territorial and predatory; recommends a species-only tank.
Fishipedia (with Fédération Française Aquariophilie): Parachromis friedrichsthalii · FishBase: Parachromis friedrichsthalii summaryFishipedia says mid-water and near the bottom (template text); FishBase only 'benthopelagic'. Not enough to confirm 'middle'.
Fishipedia (with Fédération Française Aquariophilie): Parachromis friedrichsthaliiLegacy 2 = moderate.
Fishipedia (with Fédération Française Aquariophilie): Parachromis friedrichsthaliiLegacy 'about' says Nicaragua and Costa Rica: that is the range of P. loisellei, not P. friedrichsthalii. Fish of Nicaraguan/Costa Rican origin sold as 'friedrichsthalii' are probably loisellei.
FishBase: Parachromis friedrichsthalii summary · FishBase: Parachromis loisellei summaryLegacy 500-1000; FishBase gives 500-700.
FishBase: Parachromis friedrichsthalii summaryLegacy range (Nicaragua and Costa Rica) wrong for this species; see nativeRange. 'Yellowjacket' name verified by FishBase common name.
FishBase: Parachromis friedrichsthalii summary