To line breed and get better colours would be cool , I’d love to try and pair baby Kong once I know the gender but I’m guessing it’s kind of luck with pairing cichlids, out of curiosity what would you breed if you started to do so?
I'd like to try it with Nicaraguans - bit of a personal project in a way as I know they are not valuable, rare or even that desireable to most but I find them quite interesting. The colours are stunning in natural fish but I've seen massive variance across the species. Some are almost red rather than yellow, others have little blue in them and some have very random black splotches. The males seem to grow very irregular nuchal humps some are down right ugly where as others seem to complement the body shape. I like them where the bodies are a very clear blue and yellow with a single black stripe down the body on the females, if I was line breeding them I'd be doing it for personality and colours with an aim to get the head fully blue as it usually has a grey stripe down the middle. I know it would take multiple generations and careful selection but think it would be achievable. Enough stores locally that dont stock them as standard that would probably take them (even if I didnt get anything for them).
