"August West" wrote in
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can flesh this info out some more. Don't trust the malt shop gang at
Pet Smart. they mean well, but almost always are quite inexperienced.
They keep the cichlids in the same pool of water as the angelfish.
That says it all.....

I've been to one that believed African cichlids were brackish fish. Ha!

Yes... they're all from the great ocean estuaries of Victoria, Malawi, and
Tanganyika were they swim amongst the gobies, scats, and puffers