Tropheops tankmates

[Molino]

Glenstorm: The fish he is looking for information on is Pseudotropheus tropheops. I mistakingly provided some information on Tropheus which, while still from Africa are from a different lake.

Here is a link with some limited info on Pseudotropheus tropheops and here are some pictures. Hope that helps a little.

 

[Verse914]

Hey blueyes. Do you have any more pics of him? For some reason he looks like a Iodotropheus Sprengerae to me...

 

[scholar]

I agree. He does not look like tropheup at all. Though he easily could be Iodotropheus Sprengerae!

All comments are still valid for both fish. The IP is much milder fish.

 

[BluEyes]

Here's another

 

[BluEyes]

and a third, but not quite as good...

Geez, I can't even find this Iodotropheus in the first three Baensch atlases, no wonder...

 

[Verse914]

to me, he looks like the I. Sprengerae also called "Rusty cichlid". Heres a pic that shows a male and female
http://malawimayhem.com/profile_show.php?id=196

 

[BluEyes]

Dang, matches the female pic almost right on. Except, my fish has egg spots on the anal fin. Isn't that clear sign of meing male? Or is the male coloration in the photo his breeding colors?

 

[Verse914]

egg spots doesnt all always tell the sex of a cichlid, especially on mbuna where both the males and females may have them. But Im pretty sure thats what your fish is(I. sprengerae).

 

[BluEyes]

Yeah, that phots made me pretty sure, too! Looks almost exactly like the ones I've taken

So these guys are more peaceful than your average Mbuna? Would that mean sticking to more peaceful tankmates, or just add more rocks?
Although, I did pick this guy (gal?) for personality, he was keeping all the other fish in the tank at the LFS shooed away from the top. Whenever anyone would come up, he'd chase them away from his spot up top near the glass. That, and when I touched my fingertip to the water, he came over and bit me...
They will be eventually be getting a bigger tank (after I find a job!). Probably something custom built 36" long, but lower and more room front/back than commercial tanks and in the range of 35g or so...

 

[goldfries]

the title is confusing. Tropheus is from Lake Tanganyika.

the one referred to in this thread, based on the pictures, are Tropheups.

they do have similar shape.