Petrochromis sp.Texas "Red Fin Longola" - BEASTY!!

[newb]

Soooooooo...your saying it should be ok to put the Dubs in with him? I want to get him a female or two as well.

Russ: sorry to hijack your thread...

[russ]

its cool newb.dubs would be fine with your petro!
i got mine from alison @ cichlids and herps,but they are long gone.i hope she gets more in so i can add to these 6.

thanks mj,i've been waiting a long time to p/u a group of longola.....and finally!!!
pm replied to.

[newb]

Like I said...Extreme has two males and 2 maybe 3 females at his store today...maybe he would ship to you?

[newb]

cool...I think im gonna try it out.

[russ]

i have to get more money flow before i can get anymore.

oh,the tankmates are 12 adult trews and 9 adult red rainbow.

[cichlid1409]

nice petro russ.... wouldn't mind seeing a shot of them all in the tank :)

[russ]

i'll post some more pics tomorrow when they settle in.
thanks.

[myjohnson]

Soooooooo...your saying it should be ok to put the Dubs in with him? I want to get him a female or two as well.

I'm sure he will be fine with the dubs.

Getting him one or two females is a bad idea unless you like to have one or two dead females.

If you want to keep these petros.....get a bigger tank and a lot more petros.

Mike as the rest of that colony for sale. I think they are relatively cheap for the price he is asking.

Petro macro rainbow don't get collected often.

[newb]

im starting to realize that. cant get a bigger tank...so no females it is then.

[myjohnson]

that is what a wise man once said.

[newb]

I might be going back over to xtreme to pick up one of those male Longola. put the longola with the dubs and keep ole biggin' by his lonesome! With him being by himself...I feel like he is a pet more than fish!

[myjohnson]

seems like the petro addiction is about to start....

most people that keep trophs move to petros or keep both....

Personally, I have always thought petros are cooler but I don't have a good size tank to house a nice colony. So I just keep singletons with my tropheus colonies.

To play with the big petros.....8 footer minimum and 10 footer preferred

[peterp63]

Russ, Alison gave me the option to cancel my order due to the problems she faced with the order. I believe she has some males still if you want to PM her, newb. I hope yours turned out alright.

[russ]

there is quite a few petros you can keep in 6 foot tanks...trews,tri-colors-and believe it or not texas bulu.they get pretty big and i've had no aggression in 6 months or so of having them.i've had two spawns and one surviving fry that is now close to an inch.oh and i forgot you should be able to keep famula in a 6 footer to.

[myjohnson]

yeah, for sure famula and trews work. Tri-color is hit or miss I think. But that's surprises me to hear that the texas bulu don't need more room! They are on my top 5 list of petros. Got to love any sp. texas face mask.