New To Mbuna Can You Id My Fish Please?

[Cichlid_Crazy]

Added a Demasoni and another Afra (sexy fish!) today ...deffo learning more.

I have 20 Mbuna now...gonna add another 15 over time.

 

[Bebobb]

Hope the tank works out well. oh, and I would change the background, but that is just my opinion.

 

[Cichlid_Crazy]

Yeh don't worry I was planning to..its just left over from the old set up...never really liked it anyway

Probably get a straight blue one at some point...I dont like black ones I think they make the fish look nice but the tank horrible.

 

[Bebobb]

Good luck with the Mbuna. Africans are a joy, aren't they. I can't wait until I have my multies.

 

[Cichlid_Crazy]

Yeh as much as I loved my Sevs I love these much more..so glad I did it

 

[GGriffin]

Yeh don't worry I was planning to..its just left over from the old set up...never really liked it anyway

Probably get a straight blue one at some point...I dont like black ones I think they make the fish look nice but the tank horrible.

how about a back to nature background some of those look pretty cool.

 

[Cichlid_Crazy]

Whats one of them? a 3d one?

I like 3d backgrounds but they take a fair bit of water capacity.

 

[Cichlid_Crazy]

Just noticed that it is infact a Pseudotropheus Elognatus Mpanga...not a Afra

Not fussed about scuffling...thats part and parcel of Mbuna keeping

 

[GGriffin]

Whats one of them? a 3d one?

I like 3d backgrounds but they take a fair bit of water capacity.

Yeah they are 3d and pretty nice looking.

http/www.backtonature.se/english/rock.htmly good

 

[dthoffsett]

Ask Dtoffset but from what i know Demasoni are highly aggressive to their own kind and anything that looks like them (your Mpanga), so aggressive that it won't stop untill the other one is dead. You have a very big tank and plenty of other fishies so you might be alright, just something to monitor thats all.

I think the tank is large enough there shouldn't be too much of a problem with the P.demasoni & P.elongatus. I'd be more worried about the M.auratus, IMO they shouldn't be sold in the hobby as they are so aggressive.

 

[Cichlid_Crazy]

Alot of people say that but a couple of mates who breed them say they are fine as long as they are in groups

I got a few free today and they are arguing amongst themselves a bit....i'll monitor them for a while (and the demasoni because i like my Mpanga alot more...its gourgeous)

My mate who is a breeder (who gave me soem fish earlier help me id all of my stock....this is whats in my tank now...

5 x Labidochromis caeruleus (Electric Yellow Labs)
2 x Labidochromis perlmutt (white stripey with yellow fins)
1 x Labidochromis Hongi (Tiny Purple/blue with orange/yellow fins)
1 x Pseudotropheus estherae (Red Zebra) (orange)
1 x Pseudotropheus socolofi (light blue with black on fins)
1 x Pseudotropheus Demasoni (Blue Dark Blue striped)
2 x Pseudotropheus Elongatus Mpanga (purple with yellow fins)
4 x metriaclima callaninos (Cobalt Blue Zebra) light blue/black/grey/purple)
2 x Metriaclima Greshakei (Ice Blue zebra) (multi coloured bigger dudes with yellow fins)
4 x Melanochromis auratus (yellow/black krib looking)
1 x Melanochromis Johanii (Blue and light blue kribensis looking fish)

Dithers

1 x Pelvichromis Pulcher (Female Kribensis) <<<<<only in there because I cant fricken catch her! shes going into my mates tank when i do manage to.
2 x Chromobotia macracanthus (Clown Loach)
1 x Ancistrus Sp. (Bristlenose Plec)

 

[GGriffin]

Yeah those Mpanga are a lovely colour.

 

[M.R Otter]

Heres one more I forget to add

This is possibly a cobalt blue cichlid.

 

[Cichlid_Crazy]

Yeh from the mixed tank @ £6.35 each

 

[dthoffsett]

Heres one more I forget to add

This is possibly a cobalt blue cichlid.

It is a cobalt, Metriaclima callainos.