200 gallon Tanganyika tank

[tattoo]

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update pics with all the new "jewels"

[J-WS6]

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Beautiful! Put me first in line for Tricoti fry!  

[armthehomeless]

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Thanks Raul.

[rrocket2002]

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Very nice Tim.

[armthehomeless]

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I'm a bit closer to having tricoti fry. I managed to get a mature male from tattoo. I've had one female hold for a couple days before swallowing. I think the tank is too busy, and it freaks her out. I may be looking into getting rid of my cyps from the tank. Plus - the Benthos are just eating the cyp fry before I can catch them and net them out. I've heard of people breeding Benthochromis with Ectodus as tankmates before - so I'll be keeping those. That was one of the reasons that I actually started to get interested in Ectodus in the first place.  It'll be a very mellow tank without the cyps.

I'll give it a bit more time before I do something so drastic as to sell off my Cyprichromis though...

Some pics of the new addition:

[armthehomeless]

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The tricoti fry are not being spoken of publicly 8) ... plus... they don't exist.

The calvus hasn't had a chance to get any cyp fry. The fry stay on the surface of the water right after "birth"... where the Benthochromis have a nice snack. I'm working on saving up 20 cyp fry for a fellow boxer at the moment.

[J-WS6]

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so, where are the tricoti fry!?  

and does your calvus ever eat the cyp fry?

[eklikewhoa]

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Such amazing specimens!

[armthehomeless]

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Some updated pics:

You can see the eyes of a baby through mommy's mouth in this one:


Someone more talented than I took some pictures of the Ectodus sifting sand:





Calvus staring back at me.


Ventralis in the middle of doing his mating dance (too bad there aren't any females in there)

[J-WS6]

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just beautiful. can't wait to move my colony to a 6 footer!!

[myjohnson]

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Love the cyps arms. I can't wait to get mines in!

[eklikewhoa]

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Super nice!

[armthehomeless]

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The breeding of my cyps slowed down a bit, so I got antsy and bought a few more. You can see two females holding in the upper right portion of the picture. They are back at it now!

[fishlady]

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glad that none of your fishies died Tim......too bad about the fry....but those fish in the pics look awsome....thanks for sharing...

[geoff_tropheus]

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:(  :(