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con-man-dan

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Like the title says, i'm new to the board, but not to cichlids! I have a small, but extensive fish room plus show tanks ranging from 2 1/2 gal fry tanks to my 220 CA tank. I keep Mbuna, Haps, Peacocks from Malawi, shell dwellers, calvus, neolamps and brichardi from Tang, 2 species of Vics, and Guentheri and albino kribs.
From SA I keep wild angels, crenichla lepidota, keyholes, 3 species of apisto and soon some severums for a G.O. contest.
Central Americans are my favorites, and I will be soon getting rid of almost everything in my fish room, save for them. Of the CA's, my favs are the crypotheros species. I'm trying to locate all 12 current species, which may turn into 14-18 species next year once re-classification is done lol. Right now I have HRP's, Cons, Myrnae, Gold side and regular Sajica, and Nanoluteus. Also from CA are mixtecos, gold aureus, nicaraguense, vieja regani, cyanoguttatus, archo spinnossisumus and a neat orange strain of herotilapia multispinosa.
I also dabble in live bearers, and have several schools of tetras for dithers, as well as a few species of catfish. Just thought I'd drop a hello to the board, and give a little backround on myself :)
Dan
 
Welcome! Nice assortment of fish you have. Tell me a little about the orange rainbows.
 
Bien venido!! Your tank room must be amazing--how do you decide what "movie" to watch? Cichlids be my faves, too. :rolleyes:
 
rmcder - they're F1's of an orange strain, beautiful fish. Think of a regular rainbow, blue and gold, now replace those with red and orange! And its a very rich orange, they still get the half black coloration when spawning, which makes the orange even more intense. They've spawned for me a few times, but keep eating the babies before I can get to them. I picked them up on aquabid about a year ago, got a dozen, pair formed, sold/gave away the rest to friends.

Rosita - its hard :) lol, instead of watching the whole movie, its more like channel surfing. Right now the room doesnt get much viewing, its kind of a wreck with the new racks going up and such. Hopefully everything will be to my liking in a few weeks and I'll post some pics. However, the tanks I watch the most are my Mbuna 55, the planted 90 w/the wild altums and the 220, since its the only tank in my bedroom.
 
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