Now what?

[armthehomeless]

Looks nice. Do you have pictures of your 180 gallon?

[vmahaffe]

Fish look good.

Get a background for that tank.

Thanks.
The day after I took this, I put up a black background. Looks A LOT better. Really makes the fish pop!

[J-WS6]

Fish look good.

Get a background for that tank.

[vmahaffe]

Chose the kachese, but bought 12 WC 4m:8F

[Zulaab]

Linangu is a newer fish on the market, but they have come in, in enough shipments that I see them at least ever few months being offered up.
There are many other variants that are more rare compared to this one.

[vmahaffe]

Yes, I am trying to choose one or the other. The guy selling them is asking $160 for the kachese and $150 for the linangu. He also has a group of 10 chaitaka for $100.
Are the linangu rarer?

[J-WS6]

what would that be? switch to featherfins and planted tanks? )

[armthehomeless]

It sound to me like vmahaffe is either going to do 18 kachese OR 10 linangu. Not both. I'll stay out of the tropheus decisions... y'all won't like what I would say...

[J-WS6]

I've never been a fan of mixing variants, especially moorii's. Keep in mind that there is risk with them cross breeding at some point. If it were me, I would stick to just one variant per tank. If those are your two choices, get the colony with the highest number, in this case the kachese.

[vmahaffe]

I have my 20 T. rutunga in a 120 gallon, 9 S. babaulti in a 75, now I have another 75 to fill. I am debating between a colony of 18 kachese and 10 linangu. Any opinions?
I am getting some Ilangi later this year. These tropheus are addicting!
Thanks for the opinions!