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anyone have any experience with these?
mogurnda
05-15-2003, 3:08 PM
I have had several pairs. Usually pretty mellow, getting along with most fish that don't have long fins and are too big to swallow. At spawning time, the male really colors up to a golden yellow dorsally, and they kick everybody out of their territory. Like an invisible wall. Only problem I had was when a male pursued a female to death when she wasn't ready to spawn and I had no extra tank.
thank you for your info :) im hoping to get a few rainbows, and a few blue eye cichlids soon :)
ChilDawg
05-15-2003, 3:49 PM
Where are you getting the rainbows, Caz?
dbcb314
05-15-2003, 3:58 PM
My brother has one. Holds its own with a convict, 2 severums, and a firemouth. Cool fish. Not real territorial, but he does not get punked either.
ScottoMacD
05-15-2003, 4:01 PM
My current pair are great.
My female goes almost completetly black when spawning.
They are quite doscile and won't instigate any trouble. They will however not back down to anything when they are protecting a claimed territory.
Mine have taken on some of my biggest fish,.....and won. It usually got to the point where the other fish would just give up on the area.
Mine spawn in waves. I won't have a brood for a few months.... then I will have a brood every three weeks for months.
Great fish. I highly recommend them.
thanx guys.
childawg, my lfs said that he thinks he can order some for me, but will have to check back with me on tuesday, if not, maybe someplace else. im also ordering some tripple red cockatoos :eek:
ChilDawg
05-15-2003, 4:04 PM
I have to ask this...for different tanks???
Hope you get those Rainbows!
of course for different tanks :) i emailed fish2u and asked them when they would have any blue eyes in stock. they havent responded yet though. any ideas what those fish will look like full grown?
if anyone has any pics of their rainbows i would love to see them :)
ChilDawg
05-15-2003, 4:12 PM
http://aquadex.info/fish/Cichlasoma_spilurum.cfm
http://www.adelaideaquariums.com.au/faqs/freshwater/fish/amercich/blueeye.html
Hope that these help.~Matthew
thanx :) that helped quite a bit
ChilDawg
05-15-2003, 4:35 PM
No problem, it's what I do! :)
i think i found a good place to get some blue eyes, or so im told.
http://www.tangledupincichlids.com/
ScottoMacD
05-15-2003, 8:44 PM
AHHHHH YES!
Jeff Rapp's is the man when it comes to cichlids. His prices are stocks are excellent.
Good choice caz.
i havent bought anything yet, just emailed him and asked him for some prices. hopefully they will be within my price rang :eek:
oh yeah, if anyone has any suggestions for tank mates, i would love to hear em! :)
dbcb314
05-16-2003, 7:38 PM
My brother has his with severums, firemouth, and an acara. any medium aggressive cichlid would work.
anyone know anything about Vieja heterospilus? not sure of the common name, and i cant find much info on them
Haggisman
05-16-2003, 7:50 PM
I kept a trio with silver sharks(bala), clown loaches and angel fish.They are very under rated fish and quite beautiful when spawning.They are quite docile but wont take any crap.Mine loved veggis(especially peas)but had a very annoying habit of pulling out my vallis plants from the tip of the stem.For some reason they are really hard to get around here how.
I also highly reccomend them.
Haggisman
05-16-2003, 7:51 PM
By the way that was rainbows I was talking about not Vieja heterospilus.
ScottoMacD
05-16-2003, 8:29 PM
According to the info that I have found the Vieja heterospilus has had it name reclassified. Originally it was under the cichlosoma name.
Now it is classified under the name Herichthys Heterospilus.
Apparently it gets up to 10 inches in length, but is quite rare.
It is a very nice looking fish though.
caz: try a search under Herichthys Heterospilus and see what comes up.
thanx a bunch. i dont think i will get one though. jeff rapps has some forsale, but i want something that doesnt get as big.