Lake Tanganyika Species

by **Furcifer158** » Sun Oct 24, 2010 4:46 pm

I;m sure its nice and fat already so don't put any food in there for at least 5 days. The food we all feed to our fish has way more protein than what they would eat in the wild, so staving it for 5 days minimum won't even affect it. After the 5th day put some NLS in, do not give in if it does not eat it at first. This is are weakness as fish nerds, when we see fish not eating we try something else. If it does not eat it just keep trying every day till it does. The fish will get hungry and will eat someday. I would say though if its been over two weeks that it still wont eat it. then give in. My xenos took only 6 days till they would eat it. along with these new wild kilesa I just picked up. They only took 4 days. I know its not an african but I starved this guy for 4 weeks till it finally ate some smelt. I was trying to get it off live food.

So really if a fish is healthy, just keep trying the food you want it to eat till it does. Like most everyone I too have given in to stubborn fish not eating what I would like it to eat but I think I have finally lost that after my armatus that took the 4 weeks

by **Manoah Marton** » Mon Oct 25, 2010 4:12 pm

Dude!! What the heck is that? Looks like a cross between a barracuda and a piranha!

by **Furcifer158** » Mon Oct 25, 2010 7:37 pm

Manoah Marton wrote:Dude!! What the heck is that? Looks like a cross between a barracuda and a piranha!

It kind of is google it. He is about 21 inch now
Hydrolycus armatus

by **Manoah Marton** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 11:10 am

That thing is evil cool!

by **Razzo** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 10:20 pm

Altolamprologus compressiceps (Muzi Gold Head) - female

by **famikert** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 11:26 pm

Did you by chance get that goldhead from Atlan***, Mike

by **Razzo** » Fri Oct 29, 2010 10:05 am

famikert wrote:Did you by chance get that goldhead from Atlan***, Mike

Hey Mike,

Nope, I got the pair from a company in California.

Thanks,
Russ

by **mel_cp6** » Fri Oct 29, 2010 6:23 pm

whats the difference between a red fin and a fire fin?
does anyone have a pic of the 2 for comparison?

by **kiriyama** » Fri Oct 29, 2010 7:12 pm

Razzo wrote:Altolamprologus compressiceps (Muzi Gold Head) - female

Very nice

by **Razzo** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 3:53 pm

Took a few more pics. Didin't like how the flash bleached out the color on my female Muzi gold head in the last pic (above). She has been shy lately and most pics have been from the back of the tank. The male calvus is not shy - he is always strutting his stuff. Hope you like

Altolamprologus calvus (Black Congo White Pearl)
Female (left) and male (right)

Altolamprologus compressiceps (Muzi Gold Head) - female

by **Soul** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 4:27 pm

Well folks, I've been a member here for a short while, but have used this forum as an invaluable resource for some time now. Thanks to this exact thread, I've become addicted to calvus/comps, almost as much so as with my fronts lol.

So I was at a fish store in Toronto last weekend, and walked out with a new male kigoma front for my colony, what I hope will be a breeding pair of Congo black (I think) calvus roughly 3.5", and 7 1"+ inkfin calvus.

by **Soul** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 4:29 pm

Needed one post before I could post pics, so here they are, sorry for the grainy pics and kind of large size, the only camera I have at my
disposal at the moment is my iPhone.

There is also one lufubu red fin juvie in there, about 1.5", you can kind of see him in this pic

by **Mr Mbuna** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 5:51 pm

Heres my WC male Nsumbu black calvus - only received it yesterday but its looking good. Still has a bit of growing to do.

I'll post some more pics when they've settled in a bit.

by **Razzo** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 7:32 pm

Soul wrote:Well folks, I've been a member here for a short while, but have used this forum as an invaluable resource for some time now. Thanks to this exact thread, I've become addicted to calvus/comps, almost as much so as with my fronts lol.

So I was at a fish store in Toronto last weekend, and walked out with a new male kigoma front for my colony, what I hope will be a breeding pair of Congo black (I think) calvus roughly 3.5", and 7 1"+ inkfin calvus.

Hey Soul, congrats on the new fish! Cyphos & altos - my two favorite fish too.

I am very glad to see the popularity of this thread. Lots of great alto pics!

by **Razzo** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 7:33 pm

Mr Mbuna wrote:Heres my WC male Nsumbu black calvus - only received it yesterday but its looking good. Still has a bit of growing to do.

I'll post some more pics when they've settled in a bit.

He is looking good! Congrats!

Russ

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