African lake cichlid - ZAWA-Evolved/ZAWA GitHub Wiki

African lake cichlids are ambient freshwater fish. Colorful, easy to breed, and easy to keep in captivity, they are the best friend of any exhibit designer.

In real life, african lake cichlids are diverse specialists, beloved by both new and veteran aquarists for their feisty personalities and bright colors. There are hundreds of species across just a few lakes in East Africa.

Spawning and taming

African lake cichlids are uncommon spawn in ponds, lakes and other water features in wet savanna biomes. They always spawn in schools of 5-6 fish.

As ambient, neutral animals, they can be picked up without issue. They can also be picked up in a bucket.

African lake cichlids cannot be tamed, but are still perfect for your exhibits anyways! As medium speed animals, it may take you a couple tries.

Care

African lake cichlids have 2 hearts (4 points) of health, can deal 0 hearts of damage, and drop raw cichlid upon death.

As ambient animals, they do not need specialized care.

African lake cichlids can be bred with seeds.

Exhibit building

(note: exhibit building sections contain a mix of gameplay information and building advice. Not all recommendations are necessary to keep animals happy, fed, and watered, but can help players build a realistic enclosure.)

Lake cichlids are semi-aggressive (note: they will not attack other fish entities) freshwater fish that are very popular with new and veteran aquarists for their bright colors, active temperament, and hardy health. In the wild, there are thousands of species of cichlids across isolated African lakes, all of which live in an incredible population density.

Cichlids take well to being housed with other semi-aggressive freshwater fish but cannot be housed with smaller, more passive fish. Because they can be bullies to other fish, it's important to make sure any water feature with cichlids is heavily planted and has lots of rocky hiding places. Java moss, Amazon swords, hornwort, and myrio can be layered in a way that allows fish to feel safe, and also allows visitors a good view of your tank. With Evolved moved over to 1.16, using waterlogged stairs, slabs and other blocks is a great way to add hiding places to tanks.

In other African animal exhibits, cichlids are a great filler. Try building an underwater view of your semi-aquatics' pools, with a massive school of different cichlids.

Variants

There are 12 species variants of African lake cichlid, although only 8 (electric yellow cichlid, red zebra cichlid, demason cichlid, maingano cichlid, dogtooth cichlid, pemba flame cichlid, flameback cichlid, and duboisi cichlid) will spawn in your world. The remaining 4 (red blotch zebra cichlid, yellow peacock cichlid, german red peacock cichlid, and blue tiger peacock cichlid) are captive-bred only variants that will not spawn in the wild.