I'm forever being told to actually capture some fish in my pictures. I've borrowed a good digital camera so over the next few days will add a few pictures of varying quality!
1) My favourite fish. My large, wild, male Acei "George". Probably the fish with the most expressive face in the tank. My first Mbuna I could distinguish from the others due to darker colouration and thicker body. At one time he had spawned with all five Acei females in the tank. Each were holding. There's a holding female at the bottom, one of my beautiful wild white labs, a wild Melanochromis Dialeptos female and to the left my OB wild Metriaclima Estherae. She looks a bit fat there, and I was concerned. Until three hours after this picture when I noticed she was thin and was holding, Guess they were eggs waiting to drop.
2) This picture shows my wild male Melanochromis Labrosus. After a month he has finally started eating properly. I'm delighted as after George he is my favourite fish. Since the changeover to sand his natural behaviour has some out and he has started feeding in his unique way of turning completely side on to force his lips between small gaps between and under rocks to get the scraps. Other fish are blurred though!
3) My holding wild female Estherae.
4) This is a bad shot of my male Labrosus digging in under a rock with those dat lips. I'll try and get one side on but this is the best I can offer at the moment. Check out that backside!
5) Lastly a wild Estherae withb a bemused holding Acei in the background!
That's all you're getting until Sunday afternoon!
1) My favourite fish. My large, wild, male Acei "George". Probably the fish with the most expressive face in the tank. My first Mbuna I could distinguish from the others due to darker colouration and thicker body. At one time he had spawned with all five Acei females in the tank. Each were holding. There's a holding female at the bottom, one of my beautiful wild white labs, a wild Melanochromis Dialeptos female and to the left my OB wild Metriaclima Estherae. She looks a bit fat there, and I was concerned. Until three hours after this picture when I noticed she was thin and was holding, Guess they were eggs waiting to drop.
2) This picture shows my wild male Melanochromis Labrosus. After a month he has finally started eating properly. I'm delighted as after George he is my favourite fish. Since the changeover to sand his natural behaviour has some out and he has started feeding in his unique way of turning completely side on to force his lips between small gaps between and under rocks to get the scraps. Other fish are blurred though!
3) My holding wild female Estherae.
4) This is a bad shot of my male Labrosus digging in under a rock with those dat lips. I'll try and get one side on but this is the best I can offer at the moment. Check out that backside!
5) Lastly a wild Estherae withb a bemused holding Acei in the background!
That's all you're getting until Sunday afternoon!
