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I'm casually considering a change to the line-up for my 120g (48"x24"x24") West/Central African community that I'm setting up in the Fall. I previously planned to include two pairs of P. rubrolabiatus, but if someone can suggest to me another cichlid that would fit in this community let me...
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These are the two that spend some of their time together (more like tolerate each other when they do spot the other). One is enjoying a piece of gelatin'd brine shrimp, and the other is rather interested in stealing it. ;)
This is the most colorful of the three:
And this is the one that he/she spends the most time with. Both of them don't seem to care for the third one:
Edit: By the way, that's not ich on the second one's tail. It's an artifact of the lighting and my cruddy camera.
They only tend to posture in one area, while one of them wanders around the tank the rest of the time and the other hangs around the jungle of fake plants that is above the cave in this image.
Another posturing picture:
I still don't know the sex of these two, so in the next topic...
These fish are about 1.25" SL, and I picked up two of them at a local store, then another a day later. I've read about sexing these fish through the appearance of elongated dorsal/anal fins, "plumpness" in the female, and different things about colors, but I really didn't see that much of a...
Hello,
I am always on the look-out for fish forums and I was directed to apistogramma.com by Randall. I've been keeping different freshwater fish for about five years, though the only dwarf cichlids I've ever kept were P. pulcher and M. altispinosa. I only ever had one kribensis, but I had...