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eggzackary
12-10-2008, 08:51 PM
This fall I drove over 500 miles to get a group of these from Gomez. Here is the dominate male. Now that he is acclimated to his new home, he's breeding and showing color consistently. My picture taking does him no justice.

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http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh318/eggzackary/Fish/IMG_1405-1.jpg
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AMBUSHPREDATOR
12-10-2008, 09:04 PM
500 miles!!!do him some justice and make a video with him and the girl's.
eggzackary
12-10-2008, 09:25 PM
I can't help myself, its a cichness :disturbed:
YoungAquaticPhotos
12-11-2008, 10:35 PM
Ya gotta love those Cyno's!
why_spyder
12-12-2008, 05:08 PM
I really enjoy all the different Cynotilapia sp. mbamba variants....
nick a
12-15-2008, 09:58 AM
Well worth the trip! Pretty good shots too, I've found them to be one of the harder types to get good shots of. Not sure if its because of how dark they are or what? I broke my own rules :) and ordered this group of Mphanga Rocks off aqua-bid. They're coloring up pretty nicely now. Couple of the males:
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/5645/dsc1391lu7.jpg
http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/1886/dsc1139dh3.jpg

This group from Lundu has been very slow to settle in but have started breeding pretty well--three femmes holding!
http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/2267/dsc1181kl6.jpg


NO reason to worry! its a cichness

I read that keeping fish can add years to your life---so figure it's just investing in the future! (better than the stock market these days too!)
eggzackary
12-15-2008, 06:27 PM
Nice fish Nick!...I too noticed that mine took awhile to settle in. I almost moved them to a tank of their own.
misterted
12-19-2008, 07:13 PM
I've been keeping those for several years now. Right now I have a group of at least 7 and they spawn regularly. The amount of fry they produce are very small in most cases, that's why you don't see them for sale often.
The males are absolutely magnificent when fully fired up. Sub-dominant males don't show color and often look like females as a type of camouflage.
They are one of my absolute favorite species.