livingart Posted May 18, 2008 Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 what are these guys? any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon1990 Posted May 18, 2008 Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 Peacocks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted May 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 Peacocks can you be species specific Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon1990 Posted May 18, 2008 Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 :lol: I know nothing about Africans, let alone peacocks lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smidey Posted May 18, 2008 Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 Aulonocara stuartgranti would be my best guess. here's a link to a profile of one of them. http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/s ... hp?id=1402 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanjury Posted May 18, 2008 Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 Yep id go with red shoulder also.. Used to be called A. hansbaenschi but has been reclassified as a locational varient of stuartgranti see the list here. There are plenty called red shoulder http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/c ... .php?cat=3 Are they all the same type? And did you get them from a good source etc? They all look good 2 males seem to have coloured up well and females all appear the same shape well as much as you can tell from the pics anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted May 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 originally swapped as fry of red shouldered chilumba the guy has been breeding them for a few years now parents are stunning, bloodline is 8 years old have about 30 odd fish all identical for shape etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanjury Posted May 18, 2008 Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 LOL Are these bred by "the lurker" you talked about who doesn't want to join? Looks like he breeds good fish and should join and introduce himself (hopefully he lurks on here). I see where the confusion with the chilumba's came in. I haven't heard red shoulders being called chilumba's however if you look through the list then you will see that stuartgranti has a varient called chilumba so maybe it caused some confusion? Or they could have been brought in as red shoulder chilumba 8-10 maybe even more years ago and have had a few renames since then I wasn't keeping africans back then and have no idea, lol chances are in another 8-10 years it will be called something else but the fish wont have changed. Bottom line is if they've been kept seperate and this line has been bred true for 8 years its all good and to me they look pure and what I would call a red shoulder im sure others will offer advice. Nice looking fish I hope you breed them and spread them around advertise them on here when you do I wouldn't mind some Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted May 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 just keeping about 6, the rest are to go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanjury Posted May 18, 2008 Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 I have looked at these pics again and I do think that maybe they are a little too slender for the hansbeanshi type fish.. This maybe the photo's or just me what do others think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-town... Posted May 18, 2008 Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 my guess was red shoulders look almost identicle to the ones I was keeping a couple of years ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afrikan Posted May 18, 2008 Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 Lovely looking fish livingart 8) The hansbaenchi we kept a while ago were very high bodies and compact fish... the peacocks pictured above are alot more longer and streamlined than my hansbaenchi. I would have described my lot as "cobby" bodied. But gee it's so hard with pics aye :roll: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted May 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 going by photos is hard but on the site mentioned they are close to Aulonocara stuartgranti (Metangula) Aulonocara stuartgranti (Ntekete) in amongst the variants there is slight difference in individuals so who knows, all i know as these have been in a closed gene pool for a few years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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