I just picked up 4 profundicola "yellow" earlier this week... so far so good. Got 2 males @ 4-4.5 inches and 2 females @ 3-3.5 inches. In a 90g with a lone male salvini (5 inches), a small managuensis, small wolffish, and 2 small venezuela giant pike cichlids (all under 4.5 inches). This 90 is kind of a growout for other fish too small to go into the bigger tanks (under 6 inches and I don't want to risk it), but I think i'll end up keeping just a pair of profundicola in there. They're quite mellow, much less aggressive than my old kendalli were. The males don't pick fights with anything, even each other, which I find strange for lepidios... usually they're ragging on each other all day. They're almost like giant attenuatus. They can easily hold their own when the others try pushing them around though. The females are actually more aggressive than the males - they scrap with each other every once in a while when one of the males swims by, but still, nothing near the usual lepidiolamprologine aggression level. They're quick when chasing down prey - they strike MUCH faster than the 2 pike cichlids.
Anyone else keeping these? Any experience breeding them? I've heard they become super aggressive when breeding, to the point that a 10" pair can take a 240g for themselves. Any experience with this? How are the males aggression wise towards the females once eggs are laid? I know my old kendalli pair never once scratched each other since the day they paired up, but again, these fish act completely differently.
Anyone else keeping these? Any experience breeding them? I've heard they become super aggressive when breeding, to the point that a 10" pair can take a 240g for themselves. Any experience with this? How are the males aggression wise towards the females once eggs are laid? I know my old kendalli pair never once scratched each other since the day they paired up, but again, these fish act completely differently.
There's alot of confusion between L. elongatus and profundicola "yellow", all the profundicola "yellow" I've seen look almost identical to L. elongatus, although some adults do actually become yellow.
Both species mentioned in the thread get up to about 12", so both are decent sized fish. I'm actually happy that they might be elongatus... they were the fish I prefered originally, but they didn't have any in stock so I ordered "profundicola yellow". These guys are a bit of a relief aggression-wise, they're so placid compared to the last set of tangs I picked up. I ended up giving my dhonti pair a 20g for now, they were in a different 90g previously. Started with 6, then bought 2 more. Dominant male wiped out the other male first, then all was fine for a month or so. Then overnight he paired up with the largest female and they proceeded to kill all but 1 of the remaining females who I netted in time and gave to my friend. She's now living happily with some demasoni, afra, estherae, and other malawian tough guys in a 180 
