View Full Version : just a pic: Buttikoferi
AikidoGuy
11-27-2002, 5:46 PM
Buttikoferi: hes not showing off his bright blue lips and fins or the copper color on his gill plates in this pic
nice buttikoferi! how big is he?
AikidoGuy
11-27-2002, 5:51 PM
total length is about 9" shes not much smaller than my old male midas was.
im pretty sure its a female i tried to vent it and that swhat i came up with, but imjust learning how to vent.
those guys arent very easy to sex
Great fish there. I haven't had any experience with them, but they seem beautiful.
Co/\/vict
11-28-2002, 12:52 AM
wow cool fish, I love that coloration.
AikidoGuy
11-28-2002, 1:52 PM
thanks guys, shes not even showing off her colors that well, or the camera washed it out? what i find suprising is that it mellowed out as it got larger, kinda just hangs around picking at the rocks and gravel all day. Shes also not as thick as others ive seen at the same size, which makes me think even more that its a female. Its currently in the tank with a 5" Carpinte(bully), 3 clown loaches, a red tailed shark, a common pleco, a featherfin cat, and 2 glass cats and soon il lbe adding a female festae to the tank once it grows a bit. time for turkey talk you all on monday!
So the thing isn't aggressive?
Nice one though, how long have you had it?
blee358
11-29-2002, 11:26 PM
That is definitly a class A' fish. I have one right know that is onlt 5". I can't wait until he starts maturing and gets those colors.
Originally posted by blee358
That is definitly a class A' fish. I have one right know that is onlt 5". I can't wait until he starts maturing and gets those colors.
they dont get those colors with age they have them from a very small size(1" or so) Is he/she the dominant fish? what size tank is it in?
AikidoGuy
12-01-2002, 12:05 AM
its in a 220 gallon, it is aggressive just not nearly has nuts as the midas i gave to mojo. its colors are getting more vivid instead of fading with age, mostly the blue color on the lips and the edges of all the finnage. my friend has 4 of them all adults and none of them lost the colors as they got older like it is believed to happen. I dont think it has anything to do with being dominant because it shared a tank with a very dominant male midas, a female midas, and a mayan cichlid. Now its sharing the 220 with just a carpinte and a bunch of various bottom feeders, and soon a female festae. Im waiting for the day its attitude does a 180 and it goes phsyco, but so far so good.
cichlidsickness
12-01-2002, 7:48 PM
good looking fish man. i currently have a (what i believe to be) male. he's about 8 inches now. i have tons of pictures of him along with many of my other fish. just click the link to see them.
here is one with a kind of interesting angle.
http://www.cichlidsickness.com/buttikoferi-20.jpg
AikidoGuy
12-02-2002, 10:26 AM
nice fish cichlidsickness, wait untill its lips thicken up and protrude out and they turn bright blue itll looks like a bull dog with lipstick lol...