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Cichlid Guy
09-27-2003, 7:59 PM
Anyone with experience with this species have info on it?
http://www.cichlidae.com/tanks/t032.html
JSchmidt
09-28-2003, 12:19 AM
I'm no expert, but I've been keeping a couple of breeding colonies for the last year and a half or so. Do you have any specific questions.
These are one of my favorite mbuna, but they are aggressive little spuds!
Jim
Oscar_Wild
09-28-2003, 10:39 PM
My fishkeeping friend has these and he uses controlled overstocking to dissapate the aggression.
nattybrack
10-02-2003, 11:15 AM
I have 2 of these fish and like them alot. They are always circling each other, and trying to get the other one. I'm not sure if this is courting or aggression to be "the one". I have a larger fish in the tank so she keeps them both in check. They have been in the same tank now for close to a year and have never had more than a nipped fin.
Is there a way to tell gender in these. Coloring seems identical, maybee legnth of body?
Verse914
10-03-2003, 9:32 PM
Its hard to tell on these guys, but usually coloring may help. My male is much brighter than my female. I know for a fact shes a female because theyve bred already, but it could mean its a subdominant male too(Im talking about the coloring).
JSchmidt
10-04-2003, 9:32 AM
I've never been able to tell, except by venting. It's especially difficult if you have fish of different ages or from different generations... Even aggressiveness seems pretty evenly distributed across genders, so you can't use behavior so much.
Jim