addy Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 Yeah its a tad annoying isn't it but nevermind!!! Fish look really good, what are you doing with the fry?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herefishiefishie Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 Found the article about the rubin reds. Note the variance in colour in the natural species. http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/red_peacocks.php Frenchy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkLB Posted September 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 what are you doing with the fry?? I've got 6 spoken for, I'll be keeping a few until they're sexable and then keeping 2 or 3 females. Thats 9 taken and I'll post on the this forum to sell the rest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkLB Posted September 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 Thanks Frenchy. Interesting article. The three males that I have show some slight colour variation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tropheus Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 Thanks frenchy Guess I will keep all fry and grow them up. Trying to fill a six foot tank with male peacocks only so guess these guys will come in handy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
my4age Posted October 6, 2007 Report Share Posted October 6, 2007 anyone has a pic of an adult Aulonocara nyassae please? coz i just got a juv male and wondering how they look like in adult form. thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanjury Posted October 6, 2007 Report Share Posted October 6, 2007 Is that the one off trademe? I don't think that Al Nyassae is used anymore? http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/r ... p?genus=17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herefishiefishie Posted October 7, 2007 Report Share Posted October 7, 2007 The ones that are called nyasse here, have a lot of blue{more a navy blue too} in the compared to the one in the pic at the start of the post. Not so much of the yellow/ orange colour too. Frenchy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanjury Posted October 7, 2007 Report Share Posted October 7, 2007 Im really confused about the whole nayassae thing? The only allowed peacock in NZ is supposed to be nayassae but they seem to be getting a whole heap of fish into nz? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herefishiefishie Posted October 7, 2007 Report Share Posted October 7, 2007 The nyasse here are an old school line. Frenchy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firenzenz Posted October 7, 2007 Report Share Posted October 7, 2007 I wonder if Nyasse is being used now as a general classification of a peacock whos history is 100% accounted for. Anyway that was my take on its use, as I've seen a few different coloured Nyasse, and if you google for images you might find two that look the same. Maybe we could lob into that classification things like "blue fusions( are these Dragons bloods), red peacocks etc. Nothing wrong with a Hybrid peacock, thet are as cool as any-as long as it isn't given a 'real' name for the sake of it, for convenience or to bolster its value. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanjury Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 Thats my thought exactly I wonder if everything used to be called Al. nayassae baenshi for exanple and then then decided to stick baenshi as its own species... Which maybe why they're the only allowed fish but we get all these others coming through.. Who knows I juts wish the powers that be had left it as Al. sp on the import list! I to have no problems with line bred hybrid peacocks, provided they are named and identified and imported and breed true. I should mention that I am against hybrids random ones that are created in tanks and then matched up roughly against a random pic off the net that most likely has the wrong name under it and sold on trademe.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firenzenz Posted October 8, 2007 Report Share Posted October 8, 2007 Good point Ryan Lake Malawi was called Lake Nyassa for over a hundred years before they opted to go with Malawi when that country was formed in the sixties( used to be nyassaland), so was probably a generic term for peacocks not just a specific fish as your link to Cichlid forum showed. Even though outdated as Frenchy said the term seems to have become a handy all encompassing option. I note CF only had an image of wild specimen of that fish - not a heap of colour variants being discussed here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanjury Posted October 9, 2007 Report Share Posted October 9, 2007 Good lesson there I had no idea it used to be called Nyassa.. Guess it does make sense that they named all peacocks as such, as you said it works out well for us given the range of peacocks coming into NZ Does anyone have any idea what any of the new ones look like? Blue fusion etc? I doubt ill see them unless I see a pic on here our local doesn't get new africans in.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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