What's the deal w/ Troph's

[Nickintex]

nick I got one for you for free.

Only one?

[fshfrk]

Yup russ Petros the new BEASTS. nick I got one for you for free. they are like silly puppydogs. Come home and this fish is begging for attention from you like a puppy!

[RUDEBOY8tropheus]

trophs

first-god,second wife and kids, third tanks full of tropheus and petros

[russ]

yep!
i started out with a colony of duboisi,and then got a few other colonies of trophs,and then i went and done it!i got a colony of petrochromis orange kasumbe:now the troph addiction has turned into an obsession for petrochromis.
i still have a colony of troph ilangi but my prize fish is my petrochromis!!!

[myjohnson]

I don't know. I think mbuna are still popular.

Maybe their popularity will appeal to a different group of people I guess.

The folks in Euro all seem to like petros. Petros might find a bigger following in 5 years.

Keeping petros is a natural extension to keeping tropheus.

[Nickintex]

tropheus are like the new mbuna or something.

gettin more common very day.

So in 5 years their popularity will diminish?

[myjohnson]

tropheus are like the new mbuna or something.

gettin more common very day.

[Nickintex]

Daaammmnnnn! Opened up a can of worms. Guess i'll start reserching troph's.

Yes, go to the dark side!

[dustin]

Well I have to say they are quite interesting to watch. My wife and I have been in to the discus kick and we do love them. Discus are alot slower moving but very gracefull. Ours will greet us when we come home and even watch tv with us, But when we were at newb's house and got to see his collection of trophs my wife and I were impressed. We had kept sa ciclids before but they are nothing like trop's. We are now thinking of keeping a batch all thanks to Randall( newb.) lol

[Ceejay]

Man these are some cool fish!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GETzrwcfheo

[Ceejay]

Daaammmnnnn! Opened up a can of worms. Guess i'll start reserching troph's.

[Bluefyre_Rob]

Trophs are the true king of tropical fish (sorry discus owners, no offense intended). I started out with S&CA cichs about 20 years ago. Still have 'em, but after converting one tank to trophs about 5 years ago, I'm hooked. When we had only one tank going, I let my wife convince me to ditch the New World fish for a mixed Tanganyika tank. I found the calvuses, compresses, fronts, julies, etc., some of the coolest looking fish I'd ever kept. I also found them frightfully boring. We were geting ready to switch back when a guy I knew who pond-bred Mbuna gave me a pair of mixed breed trophs who had been separated. We put them in there, and I've never seen 2 fish so happy to see each other. Then there were babies. I gave the pair to someone else, sold most of the other Tang. cichs and we bought Chipimbis.

We keep Mplungu now. The great thing about trophs is there's always something going on. And it's a different kind of activity. There's fighting, eating, digging, & spawning going on continuously. Yes, other fish do all this too, but with trophs it's cool how all that's going on means something to every other troph in the tank, and the activity affects their entire community.

They're addictive. Sometime in the not too distant future, the other big tank we have that houses our remaining New World cichs is going to get converted.

As soon as we decide which kind to get...

[Nickintex]

I'm doing julies in that tank now. They are fairing much better. They have three surviving trophs as tankmates.

[myjohnson]

NICK the tropheus killer?

[geoff_tropheus]

noooo