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[Kleinz]

Apart from Victorians, your pix cover pretty much all my favourites.

 

I have some joanjohnsonae too, but they are murderous buggers. I would be very happy if my rostratus got as big and colourful as yours.

 

Those baliodigma are very pretty. I will be pleased when I can get some here.

 

Very nice photos all.

[humbug]

Interesting what you say about the joanjohnsonae.  I've not had mine for too long and have to date found them pretty meek and mild, other than a odd subdominant male who has taken a bit of a knock by the dom males.  They don't seem to be in the same league as say demasoni or maingano.  They are little breeding machines - I'm amazed at the size and number of fry my tiny females produce!

[Kleinz]

I am down to one female, one dominant male and another male who is basically the prison bitch. Sure they breed, but I lost a lot of adults.

[Stormfyre]

Awesome stuff

[humbug]

I am down to one female, one dominant male and another male who is basically the prison bitch. Sure they breed, but I lost a lot of adults.

 

  That doesn't sound good. 

 

You mentioned Victorians before.  I have STRONGLY resisted the urge to keep Vics just because I'm already spreading myself too thinly.  I've cut back what I'm keeping in the way of Tangs already so I could better concentrate on the Malawis.  But there is one Vic I keep looking at which I suspect will find its way into my tanks when I get a bit more space.  This hobby is addictive  

 

[Kleinz]

With Victorians you are OK keeping one species,  but every time you add another you need two more tanks. You never want to mix adults as the females are all pretty similar, and the fry are pretty indistinguishable too. The only way is making sure there is no possibility of their mixing.

 

 

Which Victorian do you keep looking at?

 

I think Tanganyikan cichlids are pretty humdrum so I get to use the space most people waste on tangs to keep SA and Victorians

[humbug]

The tangs have their place.  They have some pretty interesting behaviours.  I'm particularly partial to the biparental mouthbrooders - gobies in particular.  Basically I keep gobies, and then add a few other Tangs to keep the tanks interesting.    I'll have to hunt out some of my goby shots and bore everyone silly.

 

The Vic that has caught my eye and I keep looking at is Haplochromis thereuterion.  One day.  I hope to have another couple of Malawi species arrive this week which is again pushing my tank space to the limits, so any thoughts of Vics are very definitely downstream!

 

[humbug]

My other passion, after Malawi haps - Gobies 

 

Eretmodus marksmithi Makombe WC

 

 

 

 

the only thing cuter than a goby is a baby goby   - Eretmodus marksmithi Makombe F1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tanganicodus irsacae Ikola WC

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited by humbug, 02 February 2015 - 07:30 AM.

[humbug]

These were sold to me as Eretmodus "cyanostictus north" Makombe WC.  The E. "cyanostictus north" have since been described as E. marksmithii.  I later bought a group of WC Eretmodus marksmithii Makombe, but they are different to these guys, so I'm keeping them separated.  Its been suggested to me that the ones I bought as marksmithii are actually a different species again. I'm still researching that one, but in the meantime I'll reference them with the tags they came with

 

 

 

. . . . and a bub

 

 

 

 

 

. . . . and the last goby group I have - Tanganicodus irsacae Nyanza Lac WC

 

 

 

Edited by humbug, 02 February 2015 - 07:42 AM.

[humbug]

Some colour to break up the Tanganyikan whitebait 

 

Metriaclima estherae Pulu Point

 

 

 

[humbug]

Young Placidiochromis phenochilus Mdoka. 

 

 

 

That photo is a bit old now. I'll have to get the camera out and get some more shots.

[humbug]

Julidochromis regani 'gold Sambia'

 

 

 

 

 

 

[humbug]

Neolamprologus cylindricus

 

 

 

 

 

 

The humble multi -  Neolamprologus multifasciatus

 

 

Edited by humbug, 03 February 2015 - 10:38 PM.

[humbug]

I'm starting to run low on fish to post, so some of the more common species now
 

Nimbochromis venustus - a firm favourite which I can't imagine being without  
 

 

Sciaenochromis fryeri (electric blue)

 

 

 

[dicky7]

Bloody amazing Kathy

[humbug]

Labeotropheus fuelleborni

 

I assume its the same in WA, but these guys are everywhere in SA, but the quality of most is woeful.  I rarely collect any fry from my colony these days, but I will continue to maintain them because I fear that in the not too distant future we will be looking around asking what happened to fuelleborni.  Its just too easy to lose species  These shots are of some youngsters

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[humbug]

Here's another shot of  Cyprichromis leptosoma jumbo “tricolor” 

 

 

 

[humbug]

I had a couple of new species arrive today.  This is one of them.  I'm not a great fan of peacocks, and Lwanda is the only species I've kept in recent years.  But these guys appeal to me - perhaps because they have more of a hap look about them.  Had only been in the tank an hour or so when I took these shots.  They appear to be pretty laid back.  They checked out the tank, then were in my face demanding food.   Looking forward to seeing some colour on the dom male. 

 

WC Aulonocara rostratum

 

 

[Mattia]

Who do you keep them with?

Be ready for next Christmas, they color up only once a year

[Kleinz]

Sand whiting...