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How old is that book? :-? Frenchy

The problem is you bought them as something else. All we have done is suggest what we think it looks like. A lot of peacock species are similar therefore, we can't be 100% sure if they are pure. All you can really do is call it by a common name. Something like maleri golds, sunshine peacocks. That is all Frenchy

Frozen Baby brine shrimp & cyclops. Crushed vegie flake for mbunas. Fry powder. Frenchy

Tiny. Never measured. Enough to swim around & look after themselves. But no where big enough to return to main tanks. Heres a photo of fry I stripped, female had been holding 2-3 weeks. Acei in this case, 10litre bucket. Frenchy

I would say she has only been holding for a few days. If you were going to strip, make it 2 weeks from now, or the following weekend. Frenchy

Yeh as above again. Strip at 2-3 weeks for fry swimming fry. If you strip early, you will need to tumble the eggs. Frenchy

As Ryan said. Frenchy

If you can find out the dimensions may help. The bigger the tank in height, the thicker the glass, therefore the dearer the price. {let us know the width too} Picture will be great, what quality is the stand & hood? Whats it made off. For me I couldn't even stab in the dark. Frenchy

Looks Great 8) Frenchy

Got me buggered why they can't import them under proper names? Be cool if you can get new tropheus. As Tiden said, you would want to look at the whole batch. Firstly to see what they are & if all of them are the same. Frenchy

:lol: Peanuts, you picked the same as me. Maleri golds, sunshines, same thing here. Frenchy

From the same page. Frenchy

Aulonocara baenschi have a different shaped head to the one pictured. To me the one pictured is a type of stuartgranti or jacob friebergi. Frenchy

From the years of watching here, I wouldn't call them experts. The zebra albino & blotch zebras could be anything. From a pure species to a hybrid. You wouldn't know until you saw them. Go with hybrid. Ps. Demansoni & tropheous. I would say if the tropheous has ps in front of it. They have miss spelled the species name. There are Pseudotropheus tropheops. Peacock marble & tangerines are most likely hybrids. The tropheus ones mentioned don't exist in a Tang book I have. You would have to wait & see. Why they haven't used a proper variant name. oh well. The others are as said above. P. demasoni are that, Orange zeb could be Metriaclima estherae. But you have to view them. The are usually called red zebs. True ones have red tinged eyes. http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/met_estherae.php And the ice blues, should be these Metriaclima greshakei. Frenchy

The ice blue may fight with the cobalts. Very similar in colour. Demasoni may be fine, depends how they fit in. The giraffe down the track may look at the demasoni as a food source too. Frenchy

Maybe best to pm Afrikan. She has an assortment of peacocks. Therefore maybe able to ID them for you. Looks very much like the maleri golds we get here in Aussie. An old school peacock. Frenchy

I used to do that with convict fry. Problem was once a month I had to take the tank apart to catch out the survivors. :roll: :lol: Frenchy

Sounds internal to me, worms, hex or similar. Treat with food soaked in metro if you can lay your hands on some. Frenchy

You bring up good points Mark... Over here, there has been stuff all American imports for donkeys years. They aren't the vogue anymore. Therefore those that are smuggled in tend to be Africans, or something new. A lot of the bigger species aren't as good as they used to be. I am constantly told by old school American keepers, "20 years ago, they used to look like this, more colour...." Point being, I would say no new Jags have come into Aussie for at least 10-15 years. Thats a guess, I don't know how long they have been here, no new ones in for the last 10 years at least. No such thing as a dwarf here. When I think about it, I have not seen a dwarf oscar, cichla, synspilium, festae, severum, black belt, red devil, dovii etc.On forums, in shops, peoples tanks.... Deformed & stunted yes.... especially the poor Oscars. Frenchy

What makes you think he has Hex? Frenchy

:roll: :lol: Frenchy

Come on David, you know it is a bit more complicated than that. The point I meant above was, if a dwarf variant existed it would still be classified as something. It would either have a variant name. Or its own species name if there were enough differences to the the original species. As for latin, it isn't true latin anyway. Frenchy

I have kept them in cichlid display tanks at work & home. I know a few people that have bred them. Seem pretty easy. Be best to buy 6, raise them up. As they pair off, get rid of the others. Heres some reading from where I used to work, http://www.wetpetz.com/humphead.htm & another site http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=1353 http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/s_casuarius.php Frenchy

You can buy a breeders/fry trap. Some are of a nice size. Not for a cichlid, but it will hold him. Frenchy

Have you added anything new to the tank, fish, plants etc? Could be the start of itch. To save bombing with medicine. Try increasing the tank temp to 29-30 degrees. Make sure you have plenty of airation. See if they stop doing this after a 3 days. At this stage do a water change, using a gravel vac. Keep an eye out for spots. If other species or more fish scratch regularly, you may have to treat. If no signs of spots, probably flukes, not visible to eye. Frenchy