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Three Foot Breeding Project - Give Me Some Ideas
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thanks for the suggestions, I've been doing my reading.....
really like the plecs suggested, very interested to see some decent cash could be made (although that's not my objective)
the Sumbu Dwarf looks fantastic, good shout!
....still like the Nichols as well. Hmmm, choices, choices!
Any more?
really like the plecs suggested, very interested to see some decent cash could be made (although that's not my objective)
the Sumbu Dwarf looks fantastic, good shout!
....still like the Nichols as well. Hmmm, choices, choices!
Any more?
N0body Of The Goat
Oddball and African riverine fish keeper
Kiriyama on here has had a breeding group of Altolamprologus compressiceps "Sumbu Dwarf" for well over a year now.
crazyforcordoras
CLASH OF CLANS!!!!
How about four eyed fish? Even though they are livebearers they are unusual. A species of pencilfish?
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four eyed fish - now there's something different! Never seen them available though.
I saw a fully grown Anomalochromis thomasi at a LFS recently - beautiful little fish. Very similar in shape and markings to laetacara species, so I was amazed to find it's an African native. That's going on the shortlist.
I saw a fully grown Anomalochromis thomasi at a LFS recently - beautiful little fish. Very similar in shape and markings to laetacara species, so I was amazed to find it's an African native. That's going on the shortlist.
The thomasi cichlids are lovely, you dont see them too often... mainly because they look an awful lot like rams but with much less colour for most of their lives.... i loved them though!
Anableps (four eyes) get quite big i believe?
Anableps (four eyes) get quite big i believe?
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indeed - the juvis they have look incredibly drab - silver with a few dark spots. It's no wonder they've had a tank full of them for months.
Tell you what... i would kill to have my Etroplus canarensis projects back again These cichlids are incredible and to have a cichlid that actively shoals as well was a whole new experiance.
It was also awesome to be one of a few that had a decent group (12) of these fish and growing at a rate of notts as few few owned them and no one had got past spawning and even that was one off... dont know what their status is any more... but i know my ex killed all my canarensis when i had to leave, i went back to get them and they'd been stuck in with adult oscars... they were only 1.5" long!!
But they were showing amazing behaviours, the dominant males herded their own females about and stole each others females too which meant a lot of displaying... *sighs sadly*
I love cichlids, nothing beats them for personality but now, if i was to find a breeding project... id look more long term. I would want an unusual species, doesnt have to be cichlid, would need to see if there was demand or even interest in th species first because its one thing planning to home one clutch of babies but what about the next lot.. and the next lot....
These cichlids are incredible and to have a cichlid that actively shoals as well was a whole new experiance.It was also awesome to be one of a few that had a decent group (12) of these fish and growing at a rate of notts as few few owned them and no one had got past spawning and even that was one off... dont know what their status is any more... but i know my ex killed all my canarensis when i had to leave, i went back to get them and they'd been stuck in with adult oscars... they were only 1.5" long!!
But they were showing amazing behaviours, the dominant males herded their own females about and stole each others females too which meant a lot of displaying... *sighs sadly*I love cichlids, nothing beats them for personality but now, if i was to find a breeding project... id look more long term. I would want an unusual species, doesnt have to be cichlid, would need to see if there was demand or even interest in th species first because its one thing planning to home one clutch of babies but what about the next lot.. and the next lot....
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an Asian cichlid....rare indeed!
N0body Of The Goat
Oddball and African riverine fish keeper
A. thomasi are lovely, I'm not sure how much you would see them though without some gentle biotope dithers (Jae or Butterfly Barbs perhaps, not sure if Barbus brilioides http
/www.tropicalfishfinder.co.uk/stores_productsinfo.asp?store=6&prod=361 would be suitable?).
/www.tropicalfishfinder.co.uk/stores_productsinfo.asp?store=6&prod=361 would be suitable?).
Pretty sure the bariliodes have a different name now?! But either way... they are absolutely gorgeous fish!! They would be fine! Jae barbs are gorgeous too... tho if trying to really breed, dithers will only eat the babies
N0body Of The Goat
Oddball and African riverine fish keeper
Pretty sure the bariliodes have a different name now?! But either way... they are absolutely gorgeous fish!! They would be fine! Jae barbs are gorgeous too... tho if trying to really breed, dithers will only eat the babies
Mats has a lovely group of them, only seen them in photos so far, but I might get a chance to see them in the flesh before he moves (depending on what happens about him getting my S. decora, we nearly did a visit to Enfield Wildwoods Yesterday, but I botteld it last week when I looked at the practicalities of clearing my Rio240 to use as a big QT for 3 African schoolers (B. longipinnis; A. spoilopterus; P. debauwi (if that is what they really have and not P. buffei).
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