Mcculloch

Nice! although not a huge fan of albinos. Is that one of the chilumba females in the background?

Have you seen a pure strain of Pseudotropheus socolofi camtang ? Yeah a bumble bee was one of my first disaster fish years ago.. decided to systematically kill every other fish in my first african tank. Yeah I think the tropheops I'm thinking of were either Ryan's or via Ryan to the person who showed me... it was a while ago now. Yes species tanks with mbuna are what I like, display them like most people display Tropheus and they start to really look good imo.

Thanks Daz there is actually quite a lot more on the allowable import list than I've seen actually here. Yeah Ive seen the Auroras around too. Ive seen some nice Pseudotropheus saulosi and heard of and seen pictures of some Tropheops chilumba. The other thing is, you never see is the species we have being displayed nicely either there always in a mash up of different african cichlids. A whole species tank dedicated to Melanochromis auratus for instance would look great !

The main reason I gave up on keeping Malawians was I have next to no interest in Peacock/lithobate/open water hap type fish from that lake, the Malawians Ive always liked have been the mbuna types and we seem to have such a limited selection here. And its not because i'm a purest or anything its just once you cross breed everything they all start to look the same and variety is whats so cool about these fish! Just wondering on whats out there beyond the Hybrid zebras, Electric yellows, Demasonis, Auratus etc ?

I was meaning the being half black as well, the Jack Dempsy was a normal colour one day then changed half black the next and stayed that way. Looked exactly the same colour wise as this flower horn.

Ive seen it in a Jack Dempsey as well exact same thing??

Looks great. Are they Herman's?

I was quite successful with these a few years ago. Basically treat them like fighting fish in terms of breeding. When I had fry I raised them with gladwrap over the tank for the first 2 weeks to keep the air above the water really humid, think they have problems developing their labyrinth organ otherwise. First two weeks micro worms and green water then brine shrimp worked fine. I think the main reason people don't breed them more often is lack of females imported ?

Nice setup! :cophot:

Thats why we need cyprichromis in this country!!

Yeah in a few months I could probably supply some but need to get it growing on my tank first!

Thanks nudge theres more photos of the tank and fish here viewtopic.php?f=13&t=64124 Don't like derailing threads so Ill put up a stock list there too. Kiwi brick do it you never know untill you try.

Yeah havn't noticed the fish going for the roots yet. Their mostly predatory tangs apart from the tropheus so have to wait and see how it goes.

I think the great thing about pothos is that its easy to grow extremly low care and sucks up nitrates. You could do the same thing with allsorts of plants but you might need more lighting or nutrient supplements. Ive got a lily of some sort thats getting huge growing out of a tank in my garage under lighting, but the same plant failed exactly where I have the pothos now.

Hey I wanted to tidy up the look of the Pothos going into my display tank, so I brought a plastic pot drilled a hole and siliconed a pipe so about 3 cm was into the pot and about 15cm was sticking out the bottom. Filled pot with pumice planted pothos with the pipe going into the tank next to the filter outake and waited occasionally watering hoping roots would appear out of the pipe. Thanks to David for the Pothos btw!

Pictus cats would look great and if you had a few of them they might not be so shy they would cost a bit though.

:gpo2: I agree absolutely with David couldn't have said it better.

Finally got an ok pic of the male he's quite shy....

Looks good man. I agree plants would look great and help to shade it over summer.

At a glance I'd say the female is around 18cm and the male is around 25cm

These do like a higher ph and both species are quite passive, from completely different parts of the world though so not my thing. Couldnt resist taking another photo

Thanks David I usually lean more towards the African side of things but Ive always liked Nicaraguans, wonder how they would go in with your Eartheaters.

Yeah it took me a while to get round to it, plus I hate it when Cichlids spawn at a young age and get stunted let them grow first imo.

I didnt find them to hard to pair off, I brought a male and a female, threw them in a 400L tank with a bunch of other random fish left them for about 2 years then seperated them off on there own. Tons of fry in there now and there being awesome parents.

Ive had these guys for a while but finally decided to have a go at getting them to spawn. Was'nt happening for quite a while which surprised me as I thought they would be simple to get going just like any other paired up central or south american cichlid. Recently my grandmother passed away and in her belongings was a tudor vase apperantly its some kind of antique so I grabed it before anyone else could ......