Maaxim

SOLD !!! 

 

 

 

Let me know what size you are looking for and I can arrange for them to be cut. Pickup from Plastic Fabricators WA, landsdale


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Hey Maaxim, keeping such an impressive Tang selection, is there any chance you could share your water parameters... particularly KH and GH? And I was also wondered about how often/ amount of water changes you would do?
I just ask as I have had quite a few of my lufubu pass away of late, yet my other tropheus colonies, the wc fronts, lelupi and calvis etc all so happy.
Do you have slight variation in water peramiters between the different tropheus you have kept? I can't figure out why the lefubu aren't doing so well and the rest so happy.
Awesome fish btw. They do look amazing!

Hey,

What can I say... I am not a "perfectionist by the book" when it comes to water parameters but I do believe the stability is the key and so are frequent water changes.

My PH is always about 8.0- 8.5 and always stay stable even after 50% water change. Hardness is 150ppm which is not the highest I know but it works for me.

I "normally" change 30% of my water every week. I am almost always trying to use crashed coral substrate which makes my water hard when combined with rocks etc... Dolomite is also pretty good.

I use salts and Ph buffer when setting up the tank and ones the PH and hardness is stable I dont experiment anymore to boost one or the other and to achieve book values. I just found stability is the key! 

 

About your Lufubu... How many did you kept in the colony? Is there possibility they just have killed each other while sorting the hierarchy out? Usually happens to small colonies (less then a dozen) they just can destroy themselves unless kept with some other trophs... Maybe its not a water parameters to blame?

Are the Frontosa Moba sold?

SOLD now. Pickup pending

Let's talk then. What would you like yo know . The photos say it all these are great looking creatures. The colony is probably about 5 years old. 5 of these are wild caught I have been told when I got them but I cannot prove it so I haven't advertised then as wc... Either way great colony.


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One door closes another one opens Chris...

I will be moving into my first own house in OZ and I will have the opportunity to expand few walls here and there for new fishroom sometime.... 

Mate the lufubu are amazing - thank you very much!!!

You are most welcome! Thank you for taking care of these. I would love to see the Lufubu's distributed all around WA. It would be a shame for these to disappear.

I will buy some fry back of you one day if you let me    

Unfortunately due to my recent redundancy and new work commitments I need to move.

I am shutting my fish room down as there is no way I will be moving with all these fish tanks...

Some of my beautiful colonies of Tropheus must go...

Pickup in Atwell.

For sale are going:
 

Altolamprologus Calvus "Black"- Pair $150 

no photo

Cyphotilapia Gibberosa "Moba" - 12x 3 males and 9 females from what I can tell. SOLD

 

Tropheus Brichardi "Kabimba" "canary Cheek"- 15 fully grown adult breeding colony, SOLD
Tropheus Brichardi "Bulombora", 15x, $450 Breeding Colony SOLD

 

Tropheus Moori Lufubu "Real", 10x fully grown adult breeding colony, SOLD
Tropheus Red "Chipimbi", 10x Fully Grown adult breeding colony SOLD
Altolamprologus Compressiceps "Gold"- Pair SOLD

For sale :

Livestock
Name:Tropheus Black Kiriza
Size: fully grown adults around 10cm +
Number:9
Sex: 3 males 6 females
Price or a ballpark figure: $400
Shipping available? Yes
Photos: of the net...
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Hey Paul,

 

Welcome to the PCS forum!!! I am glad there is one more tang fan out there... There is never enough tang fans hehehe...

 

It must have been a "Moba night" yesterday as I walked into my fishroom today to a holding Moba female. It is also first time they breed for me.

I am also all over the moon         and I feel like organizing a "Moba" party.

 

I am also extending /improving and modifying my fish-room and recently partially completed part of the insulation and covering the walls in the shed with some water resistant panels. I have many of these available so if you need any let me know and I will post a photo of them so you can see how they look like.

 

See you around mate! Maybe you should keep posting one photo every day for each of the tanks you have ...as you have so many... I am sure all of us would love to see these!

***SOLD***

Livestock
Name: Tropheus Red "Chipimbi"
Size: 5-6cm, great size , starting to get nice colouration already. 
Number: 11
Sex: "sex unknown"
Price or a ballpark figure: $30/each or take all for $250
Shipping available? Yes
Photos: of the net... 

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Hey Snakebite!

Tropheus are doing great in large groups so the suggestion of keeping 10 or more in the colony is accurate but only if you buy adult fish. 

If you decide to get juveniles I recommend you get large numbers (20+) as over a period of time many things can happen and so if you buy 10 and lost 2 because of whatever... you may end up with 4 males and 4 females in the colony which may not go well...  

Also you would not be able to see much action and behaviour in 5ft tank keeping only 10 juvies...   

I personally like keeping Tropheus in groups of around 30 per tank of 6ft . For me to see them in "action" chasing and bossing each other is an experience that not many cichlids can offer... but it is only my personal experience.

 

Tank mates? Tropheus will do well with any other African Cichlids as the water parameters are very similar. You need to remember Tropheus is Herbivore so as long as you don't overfeed them with meaty food they should be fine.

Any Tropheus tank-mate may struggle to get enough food as Tropheus will eat it all before any others will be able to opens the mouth ...hehehe.  It could be very challenging, but keeping them with species you have listed is possible.

I wouldn't recommend though..

 

I feed my tropheus NLS sinking pellets and Sera Flora, I also give them Brine Shrimp ones a week which they are going nuts for...  

  

You are welcome to come around anytime to see few different set-ups with variety of Tropheus and Tanganyika's in my fish-room. You can then observe the fish and you will see the differences in personalities etc..

Great looking fish!

Tropheus.... big or small orange or black, red or green .................. I LOVE THEM ALL !!!!!!!!!!!!!       

Bought these guys from German Import organized by Aquotix. Eretmodus blue spot kapampa WC (1M & 2 F). It's almost two weeks I have got them. Hopefully I will get a pair soon.  Great quality. A few pic of them;

 

 

Thanks to Mattia and Aquotix Team for well organized import right before new law applied. Special thanks to Maaxim for organizing shipping to east.

 

You are most welcome mate! Enjoy the fish and remember our agreement about fry swap     

 

nothing yet

they were sold out.

 

just checked out RedSea, more than triple the price

Quality always comes at a price