Teleocichla species

[Deedoo]

Does anybody have some Teleocichlas ? Any experience to tell us ?

Thanks.

Deedoo

 

[Z Man]

Teleochichlas

Yes, I have had them at a few different times. They are a very nasty fish yet only a few inches (centemeters) long. They hide most of the time, stay at the bottom of the tank and grab anything that goes by. I tried to breed them about 4 or 5 times and finally gave up when I ended up with just one fish. I used a 30 gallon breeder and figured it was too small. If you get them I wish you lots of good luck.

 

[Deedoo]

Ok thank you for your experience with Teleocichlas.
Anybody else had experience Teleocichlas ?

 

[Terje]

Have none experience with them but I don't think what Z man said is representative for all Teleocichla species. One of my LFS (with high quality) have had T. Monogramma in for several months now. I guess there's about 8 of them in a tank not bigger than 50L (about 12 gallons I think). They don't have any problems with them.
I'd love to buy them but they cost about 40$ each and they are not that great

 

[Cichlids1]

I had about the same experience as Zman. I started with 6 T. monogramma and they quickly thinned themselves down to 4. At 4, they didn't behave too badly. A lot of chasing and blustering, but very little carnage. I kept them warm (90F), in a tank with deep sand, strong current, and several large rocks for them to hop around on and hide under. I had them for close to a year before I killed them with some bad housekeeping. Here are a couple pictures of them:

http://www.basementcichlids.com/images/telocichla_pair.jpg
http://www.basementcichlids.com/images/male_telocichla.jpg

And their tank:

http://www.basementcichlids.com/images/temp/telocichla_tank.jpg

 

[Deedoo]

I can't read your photos ! I have this message :

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[Cichlids1]

Weird...it does that from time to time for some reason on other forums also. Try copying the link and pasting it into your browser. That always seems to work.