More tank updates

[Jesse]

Okay, I went to my lfs to get the firemouths I ordered - and what did I get? Nothing! He forgot to order them. Well, I decided to get some other things for my other tank - a 10 gallon. I got a few more tiger barbs, so now I have 5. I splurged and bought a pair of pearl gouramis - which i was going to keep in the 10 but decided to put in the 29. Also, I bought a couple of African Cichlids, not sure what they are. Can you help me out on this? Here is one of them - not a good pic, though.

 

[Jesse]

Here is another one of the Africans. VERY pretty they are!

 

[Jesse]

I tried to snap a pic of my corys

 

[Jesse]

Here are the tiger barbs that I bought. A couple of them are VERY fat!

 

[Jesse]

A couple pics of my tank so far...#1

 

[Jesse]

#2...thats it for now folks!

 

[val]

Well, the first mystery fish looks like a black convict cichlid. The second fish looks like Electric Yellow Labidochromis. That would be my guess.

nice tank,
Valerie

 

[Jesse]

The thing is - it is orange, not yellow. The black one has stripes that have turned a lighter blue - and has some orange spots on its anal fin.

 

[Jesse]

Here is a LITTLE better pic...still enormously blurry.

 

[gazat]

Jesse,

The orange fish is a red zebra, and the other from the pictures i would guess as a Ps Crabro.

You might find some of your other fish start to die / go missing on you, as africans are not a community fish, really they should only be kept with other africans from the same lake. (imho ).

When i first getting into malawi's (africans) i put a few into a holding tank with community fish, they killed 1 golden barb, 1 adult SAE & 1 adult bumble bee catfish before i could rehome them in another tank. (learn from my bad experiance)

Hope this helps

Gaza

 

[skiltrip]

demand those firemouths!!!

 

[Miss Wiplash]

yep the orange one is a red zebra,

U need to make sure your ph is constant and preferably around 8-8.2 otherwise those colours on the Malawi's will fade. The red zebra isnt particularly aggressive but will still attack your gourami's etc

 

[Jesse]

I think this is the best pic of my tank so far....I am going to get a new camera soon I hope!

 

[-=DG=-]

Hi,

I've got both red zebras and crabro's in my malawi tank. My red zebra is the most aggressive fish in the tank

My crabro is no better.

Males and females equally aggressive.

But you never know u might get away with it. But id keep an eye on them.

(your crabro is male, and tell with the red zebra)

 

[-=DG=-]

I think your red zebra may be male. Do his fins have a bluish tint? If so its definately male.