How common are Keyholes in stores?

vanpudin said:
Its doing well, Fits right in. Some kind of reflection under it. Nothing wrong with fish. I'm thinking it is a male.
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Nice looking krib and yep its a male:) .

Steve.
 
I just picked up 3 from my LFS. Don't know if they have them all the time, just happened to be in there and wanted a few. The others are right, they are very passive, great community fish.
 
vanpudin said:
My local petsmart does not sell them. I went to next closest petsmart, and an employee told me that they are kind of seasonal. Once in a while they get them in the employee said. that doesnt make any sense to me.
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What part doesn't make sense? It'd be impossible for PetSmart and other LFSs to stock every freshwater fish in the trade at one time. Not enough room. That's why a good number of species are only available at certain times of the year for a specific amount of time. Keyhole cichlids have been carried by PetSmart in the past and may well be carried by us again. It all depends entirely upon our supplier and we usually only know a few weeks ahead of time when they'll be coming in. Since we recently got our updated fish list, I can safely say if we are going to carry Keyholes this year, it won't be anytime soon. Kribs are our "new" cichlid right now.

Good luck with your search. :)
 
That's good then. I get most of my fish at petsmart. I actually just bought my male Krib from their. Ill pass by the local petsmart store once in a while and take a look. And your right, there is a lot of different stocks freshwater fish out their. It would be nearly impossible to stock everything.
 
it depends where you live too. somehow only one of the lfs around here carries them normally. i have 5 of them myself. then again they do carry all the other fish that no one else seems to.
 
To ME the frequency in which you find certain fish kind of goes in & out like a fads b/c I remember back in the 90's when even though you couldn't find Keyhole Cichlids in most stores,....the COOLEST LFS's (usually the smaller ones ) use to have them more frequently for awhile & THEN (after a year or so ) I've not seen them with any regularity in the 9 years or so.


TO BE TOTALLY HONEST, I DON'T SEE AS MANY & VARYING CICHLIDS AS I USE TO !!

LJx

 
Guess I am lucky... we have a LFS that specializes in cichlids. 90% of his store is just that. He carries some other fish just to be able to pay the bills but even then more people go to his store for the cichlids now.
 
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