Lake Tanganyika Species • Tanganyika cichlids again

[nijlpaard]

I just found this:

Ophthalmotilapia nasuta "Chimba" and Ophthalmotilapia nasuta "Moliro"
These varieties are known as the Tiger Nasuta. Both have dark brown spots all over the body and tail fin. The difference is the Chimba variety has a silvery base with other fins being a light yellow. The Moliro variety has a light yellow base with the other fins being a drab grayish yellow color.

Thanks a lot for this helpful information!

Then this might be the Chimba... The fins are yellowish.


That makes sense, because the fishstation is located in Chimba.

The store also told me that the fishermen took a trip by boat. Probably to Moliro to catch fish.

Why should you catch a tiger nasuta at Moliro, when you can also catch them at Chimba?


May I ask you, where you got this helpful information?

[noddy]

I thought Chimba also.

http://animal-world.com/encyclo/fresh/c ... Nasuta.php

[nijlpaard]

I thought Chimba also.

http://animal-world.com/encyclo/fresh/c ... Nasuta.php

Thanks a lot!

There's good information on that site

[nijlpaard]

A new photo of the male Lepidiolamprologus attenuatus "yellow".

[nijlpaard]

And a photo of our dominant O. nasuta male.

[nijlpaard]

One of our two ellipsifers

[wryan]

Very neat ... quite the handsome fellow ...

[nijlpaard]

@wryan: Thanks a lot!



This time the attenuatus female managed to protect the eggs at night, against the 2 ellipsifer's.
She probably learned to be alert at night


Last time the eggs were eaten the first night by the ellipsifer's.

[nijlpaard]

And most of the fry is out!

[whalebite]

This is such a beautiful tank.
So I am really curious about the eels and the little shell dwellers, I am thinking about possibilities with Starry Nights they seem to have a relatively small tubular mouth, not moori with their big mouths, because multies I know are really small, and I assume lots of fry are lost to all the predators, or would a larger shell dweller be a better choice?

[nijlpaard]

@whalebite:

The multi's know how to handle the predator attenuatus in our tank.

Many years ago I combined them whith Lepidiolamprologus hecqui. The hecqui caught some of the multi's and ate them, but not all of them.
I never saw this in combination with the attenuatus.

I also combined them with Neolamprologus pectoralis. All of the multi's were gone after some time.

Here a new photo of our tank.




And some older pictures because the photobucket-issue



Lepidiolamprologus attenuatus yellow F0 (male)


Mastacembelus ellipsifer F1


proven couple, Lepidiolamprologus attenuatus yellow F0


Lepidiolamprologus attenuatus yellow F0 (male)


"Lamprologus" ocellatus (male)


Mastacembelus ellipsifer F1


Ophthalmotilapia nasuta F0 (male)

[nijlpaard]

A new movie after a long time...

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[nijlpaard]

Last week we added 5 young Neolamprologus tretocephalus to our tank

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[nijlpaard]

A video of the nasuta's just after spawning...
I was a bit too late


And a close-up of a female spilopterus with eggs.

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[nijlpaard]

I shot a video yesterday, a bit in a dark corner of the tank.
So not much color and not so sharp...

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