Red Zebra's have teeth?

[Rakie]

lol your africans actually bite you?

I saw an african today at a store I went to... Looked like a Placidochromis Milomo, about 8" long, glassbanger, went nuts when I walked by. Never got a price for him, but i was kinda interested.

 

[Sym]

nip at my arm when I rearrange stuff

Its kinda funny how africans are such little beasts untill you put em in a community with a couple central american brutes and then they completly behave themselves

 

[Rakie]

Its kinda funny how africans are such little beasts untill you put em in a community with a couple central american brutes and then they completly behave themselves

You know, a long time ago my first aggressive fish were Africans, and not ONE of them was a brute with me, the most they ever did was not be frightened of my hand when they were fully grown, I wish they would bite me... Hell, my FH wont bite me either, he'll bit my friends and family... but not me, lol.

 

[Onion01]

that is why I love SA cichlids. They all come out with tails wagging when I am near the tank, and sulk when anybody else tries to feed them

 

[mbunafishkeeper]

yeh red zebras have teeth alright and they stick out like sore noses ! i have also been niped even acasionally at feeding time but i do agree keep then out of this section

 

[mbunafishkeeper]

Its kinda funny how africans are such little beasts untill you put em in a community with a couple central american brutes and then they completly behave themselves

ive seen2" africans bullying 7" GTs

 

[Sym]

yeh red zebras have teeth alright and they stick out like sore noses ! i have also been niped even acasionally at feeding time but i do agree keep then out of this section

Well that definantly explains how he shreaded my electric blue ahli so fast.

 

[straitjacketstar]

Mbuna have a number of teeth. They use them to scrape algae and other items that build up on rocks. They're not used to pierce but to scrape.
I had a 7" P. crabro nearly scrape a birthmark off my arm while moving some rocks around in the tank. It stung, it bled, it was interesting.

 

[mike dunagan]

so we know they have teeth, and lets keep africans and the other seperate, so people know where to go to help each other... and the african section gets plenty of traffic....