the tail slapping in the face is aggression towards each other trying to sort out whos the boss in the tank. mine did this when i had them.
they should sort them selfs out soon.
and the males are the better looking out of the females. The males have alot of red blue and long bottom fins.
the zaries and like moba,ikola,tanz all have a mask around there face on the eye bar and burundi have a bar going
straight through their eye not like this one where the bar goes around the face
the alpha is round 10-13 cm and the rest are around 2-4-7cm
they have only just been coming out from hiding
latley now they swimming the hole lenght of the tank
their so awsome to watch i want more :bounce:
and there around a year old
hay welcome to the forum and good luck find them i know we have the jlidochromis marlieri and tropheus are also hard to come by in nz but other people are breeding them from what i know there are duboisi and ikola and some other species which i dont know what there name is.
good luck