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I got these as babies from a local guy who was trying to sell his 60cm tank along with 20 babies in them. Had kenyis, and these guys. Lost contact with him so I don't know who he is haha.

Thanks They look like socolofis but my first one looks a little different from ice blue. It's body has orange hint to it, whereas images from google shows only dorsal and caudal fins have orange colouration. But I may as well be wrong

Do they usually have striped though?

Oh google images for socolofi match exactly with those two! What about the first fish? It has yellow/orange hint to the fins and along the body.

These are the three fish I don't know the names of My current tank - some rocks are out for the night as I'm going to rearrange right side of the tank tomorrow Fish no 1 Fish no 2 & 3 Sorry for the quality, used my phone instead of my camera. Even juvies 4-5cm would be too large for my tank?

So you won't suggest me getting any more? I was thinking maybe I could get upto 20 in this tank before I move out of this apartment into a house at the end of feb where I could store a 4 or 5f tank.

I mainly feed my malawis with JBL NovoRift. Sometimes I feed them with flakes, because when I feed them with JBL, they nip/swallow the sticks then spit them back out as if they don't like the taste. Does anyone know why they might do that? I thought it could be because the sticks are too hard, because sometimes i see them eating the food after it's gotten softer in the water.

Hi ryan Thank you for advice on breeding! Yeah I thought about them cross breeding, so I'm thinking of investing in another tank once they reach big enough to breed so I can separate them into a species tank. My tank is 90x30x45 and got another small one, 40x30x30. Oh all I knew were that eyebiters were relatively peaceful. I think my tank would be too small to keep 4 fully grown eyebiters My fish are all at least 4cm, so I'm looking for juvies over that size, would you have any? If so, I'll be more than glad to come visit you and have a look at your fish! I'm getting my camera back this weekend so I'll post pics up then. Once again, thank you so much for your tips!

Hi guys I've been keeping mostly malawis for over two years and I'm really passionate about them! I thought I'd drop by and say hi, plus there are few things I wanted to ask. I'm planning to restock my malawi tank since I transferred most of them to my parents (because their visitors like them ), so I'm down to two big male lionheads, one big eyebiter, six electric yellows (babies-juvies), and three hard-to-identify mbuna species (juvies) and a cute male gba (juvie-mature). I had them in two separate tanks to avoid keeping both large and small fish but they seem to get along just fine. The tank is full of life and action, and sometimes it gets too much since other fish have been transferred, so I want to restock my tank with new fish to reduce aggressiveness and for a new look. Being a uni student, I don't have much money to afford fish from a pet store and trademe doesn't list juvies often enough and even then, most of them are out of my price range. So I'm wondering if anyone in Auckland has some they want to send to a new home for an affordable price? I'm sorry if I sound too stingy and needy, it's just that I find it hard to pay for everything already so yeah. I'm studying post grad marine science and I really want to have experience in breeding. What I'm looking for are possibly two female lionheads, one male eyebiter, one female gba, and 2 or 3 electric yellows, and other species (many different species would be perfect!). For the three unidentified species, I'm going to post a picture later so I can finally ask to know what these little guys are! To conclude my little rambling, I'm looking for juvenile malawi species (preferably those above, but I don't really care if they are of different species as long as I can have babies to look after!) I can add to my tank. Oh, and does anyone also know where I can get nice looking limestone slabs or any stone slabs for cheap as well? Thanks! -Alex

How big were they when you first got them? Mine were about 5cm.... Don't think they were out of their sensitive stage

Oh okay. I don't know why mine had fungal infection. I change the water fortnightly (20%) as recommended by most websites. They don't have any problems like that now, but I guess it could also be the water itself was contaminated by free swimming parasites or bacteria.

Great! I think I'll go search for some Anubias or Java ferns. Thank you for your inputs guys! Much appreciated. BTW, your tank looks amazing phoenix

I guess it can't hurt in trying and experimenting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chironomidae searched good ol' wiki haha but yeah I guess they aren't really mosquitoes.

I thought they are non-biting midges.. Aren't they close to mosquito family? if not, my bad