Does Any One Has Melanochromis Johani Female Or Group In AKL

[goldbird]

Does Any One Has Melanochromis Johani Female Or Group In AKL ? iIAm Looking For Quit A Some time?

[ryanjury]

Do you have johannii males? Be very careful with what you pick up on trademe as johannii as alot of the melanachromis males can very closely resemble each other but be different species..

An example is the "blue melanachromis" on the wholesale lists, if you saw a tank of them you would automatically think it was a tank of male johannii (hence the blue melanachromis bit) but I have seen females holding which are just as blue suggesting they are another species altogether. Who knows what though it has been discussed on here quite a few times with no definitive answer.

Same can be said for the "golden johannii" on the lists, the males seem to mature with very heavy vertical barring so much so they don't actually look anything like johannii, again who really knows what they are they are being sold as johannii but I have never seen an example of a pure one on any profile that looks like them.

Overseas sites have suggested that there are just as many problems with hybrids in the melanachromis species as their are in peacocks as they are all so very closely related and alot of them appear very much the same.

Have you got any pics of your fish?

Here are my breeders I purchased them as Johannii from a breeder who they have bred true for a number of generations for, they have also bred true for me for a few years too.

[goldbird]

i have pure bread male ,

Great looking fish i wish i have some.