Show Us The Different Species of African Rift Lake Cichlids..

[swk]

Featherfins are awesome fish. I currently keep some foai from Cape Kachese. In the past I had furcifer ruziba. Amazing fish.....even if only one or two look like that in a 125 gal...the rest look like minnows lol

 

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Believe it or not, I own one, a young male. They are a psudo-Victorian, well, they look like a Vic but they are from Lake Chilwa and Lake Malawi. A renown fish guru once told me that they are the blue-print or ancestor of the first haplochromine in Lake Victoria? I was also told that they are super aggressive, but mine is a real wimp, but he is still small so maybe he turns into a tiger at full adulthood. I'll try to get some shots of him.

Awesome, didn't know that

 

[Alton]

WOW!! Thanks Clownfish for keeping this thread alive. I never seen this on here until today. I will post some of mine, not sure if they are on here or not I just looked at the last couple of pages.

Aulonocara Sp. Chitande Type Masinje (Wild Caught) Male

Aulonocara Sp. Chitande Type North Male Nkhata Bay "Yellowhead" (Spawning colors, Only time I have seen the black under his mouth)

Aulonocara Ethelwynnae Chitande Male

 

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WOW!! Thanks Clownfish for keeping this thread alive. I never seen this on here until today. I will post some of mine, not sure if they are on here or not I just looked at the last couple of pages.

Aulonocara Sp. Chitande Type Masinje (Wild Caught) Male
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Aulonocara Sp. Chitande Type North Male Nkhata Bay "Yellowhead" (Spawning colors, Only time I have seen the black under his mouth)
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Aulonocara Ethelwynnae Chitande Male
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Beautiful cichlids!! Thanks for sharing Alton

 

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I guess it isn't fair that I don't contribute and keep telling others to post some pics of their africans to keep this thread alive...so here ya go...pics are crap though, sorry

1st pic - Yellow Lab
2nd pic - Red Empress
3rd pic - Electric Blue Ahli

My phone doesn't capture the beautiful colors of my red empress...


When my baby kyoga flameback's and yellow tail acei are bigger, I will post pics

...and I will post pics of my breeding pair of red empress and red top zebra when my 120g is setup

 

[Alton]

Thanks Clownknife and nice Cichlids your self!

 

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My new cichlid .....Venustus! (Sorry for water marks on the glass...forgot to clean b4 taking pics)



Moved all my cichlids I had in one of my 75g's to the 120g last night! My cichlids are so much happier. They love the sand a lot more than the gravel I had in the 75g

 

[Red Devil]

My new cichlid .....Venustus! (Sorry for water marks on the glass...forgot to clean b4 taking pics)

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Moved all my cichlids I had in one of my 75g's to the 120g last night! My cichlids are so much happier. They love the sand a lot more than the gravel I had in the 75g

my favorite ... i love them...

 

[Red Devil]

my favorite ... i love them...

 

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Well, I assumed he was a venustus but I've found out hes a nimbochromis livingstonii. I can definitely tell venustus and livingstonii apart now

Nice venustus RD