View Full Version : You LOOKIN at ME!!?? (photos)
AikidoGuy
03-18-2003, 11:44 AM
up close and personal with:
fenestratum
http://pic3.picturetrail.com/VOL15/947217/1747145/21850384.jpg
festae
http://pic3.picturetrail.com/VOL15/947217/1747145/21850381.jpg
temporalis
http://pic3.picturetrail.com/VOL15/947217/1747145/21850367.jpg
severum
http://pic3.picturetrail.com/VOL15/947217/1747145/21850377.jpg
convict
http://pic3.picturetrail.com/VOL15/947217/1747145/21850386.jpg
buttikoferi
http://pic3.picturetrail.com/VOL15/947217/1747145/21850366.jpg
glass cat
http://pic3.picturetrail.com/VOL15/947217/1747145/21850379.jpg
great looking fish! your realy teasing me with that butti and the fenestratum
AikidoGuy
03-18-2003, 10:55 PM
lol just wait i have 12 other fish that im growing out that i havent even photographed yet, some fish im growing out are in the following families:
Archocentrus xxx
Geophagus xxx
Thorichthys xxx
Herichthys xxx
Vieja xxx
Parapetenia xxx
;)
Tightdog1
03-18-2003, 11:37 PM
complements on your nice fish. wish i had that much tank room to play with!
gregga
03-19-2003, 12:12 PM
You keep reminding me that even with 12 tanks, I havent even scratched the surface of what's out there!!!!!!! Seriously.....cool pics......I've noticed we keep many of the same fish.:rolleyes:
Does your "museum" charge an admission?
Gregg
AikidoGuy
03-19-2003, 12:43 PM
im starting to get away from the big solitary kind of stuff. im really liking the whole archocentrus and vieja group alot right now. i have a 75gall tank with at least a dozen fish of diffent species all about 1" that im growing out. amongst them are an Escondido, steindachneri, a few maculicauda, and some stuff in the nandopsis and Parapetenia families :) im going to a breeder next week so i may get my hands on a newer variety of the convict type fish, thats supposed to be more colorful and alot more tankmate friendly. and who knows what else i wont resist :D good stuffs a commin'
oh and no admission is charged but donations of the swimming variety are always a plus lol..
Ledslnger
03-20-2003, 11:38 AM
Akido I used to keep the bigger CA/SA cichlids...then I too moved towards smaller cichlids from SA/CA. Then I moved to African cichlids. You may find yourself doing the same thing. The CA/SA look great when you have 20 small ones in a 125G. Then if you ever see a nice display tank with 20-30 Africans you decide to try just one tank. Then you are hooked. The metamorphasis took about 10 years for me. I just got rid of my last big cichlids...a trio of gold Jags. Now I am strictly Tangs and Malawi cichlids. When you see a nice 480G with some Ngara flametails and some benga or baenschi peacocks you will wonder how they would look in your tank...
AikidoGuy
03-20-2003, 11:46 AM
led, my 450gal was initially intended for a sh*t load of africans ;)
none of my fish geek buddies are into the africans so thatll keep me out of the african scene.
gregga
03-20-2003, 3:37 PM
Hey Akido......you have a PM
AikidoGuy
03-20-2003, 3:47 PM
got it ..now you have one
VoodooChild
03-21-2003, 12:00 AM
They all look great! I was wondering...I've never seen a temporalis before. Where'd you get him, how much, and how big does he get? I'm really interested in that guy. Kudos again!
AikidoGuy
03-21-2003, 8:37 AM
the temporalis is a commonly called a chocolate cichlid. I got it from Jeff Rapps. This particular one is a male and was $12.50. good fish not too agressive. gets kinda large tops out somewhere between 10 -12" i have mine in a tank with
1 Geophagus steindarchneri
1 Thorichthys aureus 'blue'
1 Archocentrus centrarchus
2 Copora nicaraguense
1 Heros appendiculatus
10 clown loaches
1 Red-tailed shark
1 common pleco
check out my buddy over at cichlidscene he has a nice pair of them.
http://www.cichlidscene.com/img/choc/index.html