It depends on the cichlid. In some cichlids, the male is usually the more colorful and/or ornate of the two sexes. In other cichlids, you would have to look at the gonopore (the vent from which eggs or sperm come) and even then it would be difficult unless you knew what you were looking for.
It is expected that Jewel Cichlids with Convict Cichlids.
no because the bigger cichlids will eat the little cichlids.
Cichlids are fish from the family Cichlidae in the order Perciformes. Cichlids have higly organized breeding activites. All species show some form of parental care for both eggs and larvae, often nurturing free swimming young until they are weeks or months old.
Convict cichlids lay hundreds of eggs in one spawning.
Oscars are cichlids that lay eggs on hard surfaces. They like flowerpots because they can guard the entrance against predators.
Parrot Cichlids are carnivores. I believe they are produced in a Laboratory by some Chinese scientists who artificially fertilise one species of Amazon cichlids eggs with the sperm from a different species. They are not accepted as a species by most Scientists and do not have a proper Taxonomic name.
No they can not.
Would what get along with African Cichlids?
they like to dig around... just the nature of the fish. Also maybe looking for food, or nutrients, or a place to lay eggs.
The Cichlids was created in 1979.
Oscars are cichlids! They are from the South American group of cichlids. Fish can mate only within the same species. Oscars can only mate with other Oscars.