Thinking Of Changing From Tropical Community To Mbuna Or Tanganyikan

[elisew]

Try post a pic when you can. If you look at the head shape you might be able to see. If its a comp it will be shorter and wider (compressed). Also its not advised to mix them due to cross breeding. (though that would be a while). I suppose you could put them in that new tank lol.

lol well we`re hoping to move in about a year-18 months so it may well be possible to put them in another tank then

I`ll post a pic as soon as I can, it`s the cross breeding issue that I`m really bothered about, although as you say, it would be some time before they get to that point.

I really hope they`re all the same because they`re quite striking in colour

 

[bullit]

elise, even keeping different calvus is not advised for the same reason unfortunately.

 

[elisew]

elise, even keeping different calvus is not advised for the same reason unfortunately.

But, but, but......they`re so pretty

lol I know you`re right, I just couldn`t help myself when the guy said they had to go.....I`m too bloody soft

Hubby has literally just said we`ll wait until we`ve moved and then I can have a 6ft tank in the oak style, similar to what we have now.....yayyyyy!! So, providing the new additions don`t grow and mature too quickly they will be able to stay and eventually have a new home

 

[bullit]

Im just jealous really as i havent got any new fish haha.

 

[elisew]

Im just jealous really as i havent got any new fish haha.

It`s nothing more than pure chance that I have these new ones, I had no intention of coming home with any other fish today at all.....it`s hubby`s fault for taking us over to MA and that guys fault for getting rid......mind you I won`t complain

 

[elisew]

Not a good day today, found the stressed yellow 'calvus' dead behind some rocks this morning, to be honest I`m not surprised, he looked extremely stressed yesterday. Then to top that after doing a water change on the punk fry tank yesterday, there`s hardly any movement in there now. I think I`ll be lucky to have a handful of fry that haven`t died

On a plus side, I did manage to get a decent ish pic of the other yellow 'calvus'

 

[bullit]

Looks like a gold head comp from that photo. What you think?

 

[elisew]

I really don`t know whether comp or calvus, they all look the same to me on the pics I`ve googled

Not sure if this helps with an i.d but I took a video clip this afternoon, maybe someone can tell from this:

 

[kiriyama]

Sorry to hear about your comp/calvus, apparently Alto's can be a bit sensitive to water changes , moves etc, I'm sure I read on another forum of someone losing two just by moving them into different tanks, :sad
Are you any closer to finding out what he/she is ?

 

[elisew]

Sorry to hear about your comp/calvus, apparently Alto's can be a bit sensitive to water changes , moves etc, I'm sure I read on another forum of someone losing two just by moving them into different tanks, :sad
Are you any closer to finding out what he/she is ?

Yeah I read that too

I still have no idea whether the remaining little chap/chapette is a calvus or a comp, so I`ve posted on Mikes in the hope someone will be able to give me a definate i.d

 

[kiriyama]

Sorry to hear about your comp/calvus, apparently Alto's can be a bit sensitive to water changes , moves etc, I'm sure I read on another forum of someone losing two just by moving them into different tanks, :sad
Are you any closer to finding out what he/she is ?

Yeah I read that too

I still have no idea whether the remaining little chap/chapette is a calvus or a comp, so I`ve posted on Mikes in the hope someone will be able to give me a definate i.d

Pretty sure one of the guys over there will be able to advise, sorry I can't help on this one
I was looking for the thread over there about the ebay tang tank, I was poorless when I read that last night, bidding against each other, I have seen episodes of fools and horses like this, "rodney you plonker"

 

[elisew]

Pretty sure one of the guys over there will be able to advise, sorry I can't help on this one
I was looking for the thread over there about the ebay tang tank, I was poorless when I read that last night, bidding against each other, I have seen episodes of fools and horses like this, "rodney you plonker"

Yeah I hope someone there can i.d

The bidding thing on that tank did make me laugh when I read it, I only bid to about 50-60 and it sold for 180 so I know it wasn`t me who was to blame

 

[elisew]

Well, whoever said Tangs aren`t boring were right, there seems to be something going on with them every day

I`m not sure what`s going on between my cyps at the moment, they`re kind of dancing around each other then flicking themselves quickly at each other
I don`t know for sure but I think I may possibly have 1 female out of the 11 due to the colours that are beginning to show through now. Obviously the ratio isn`t good at all if I`m right about the 1 female but I don`t know how I`ll be able to change it without buying more. Trouble is that until they colour up it`s difficult to tell the females from the males

Anyway, I had to creep towards the tank on my knees so I didn`t disturb the dancing cyps while I took a video of them so please ignore the shot of the rug in the living room

 

[kiriyama]

Nice show, Looking forward to getting some Cyps even more now after that, like tghe rug to, ours is the sam, just different colour I'm sure I seen one of your punks taking a dive into the crowd but is that your featherfins swimming in with the Cyps ? Cool

 

[elisew]

We obviously have good taste then if we both have the same style rugs

Yes the featherfins are always in and around the cyps, they all school together in the evenings when the moonlight led is on and it`s nice to see so many fish together at any one time. I think the cyps will look even better together with more colour on them. I`m really looking forward to seeing them fully mature

The punks get in on anything that`s going on, purely because they spend so much time chasing the rest away from the middle section