Michigan Cichlid Association

General Category => Old World => Topic started by: linuxrulesusa on April 17, 2013, 05:57:17 PM

Title: Tilapia snyderae
Post by: linuxrulesusa on April 17, 2013, 05:57:17 PM

Anyone kept tilapia snyderae before?  Pairs vs harems?  Tank size?  Suggested tankmates?  Diet? I saw an ad for some recently which piqued my interest so I wanted to find out more.

Title: Re: Tilapia snyderae
Post by: Jaws22 on April 18, 2013, 12:39:18 PM

I have two of these around 2 plus inches. The red under the belly is awesome. They also like free flowing algea, but have eaten anything I feed them. They seem to be a good tank mate I have some small N. Brichardi which they leave alone. I hope this helps.

Title: Re: Tilapia snyderae
Post by: Michael Zebrowski on April 18, 2013, 09:33:01 PM

Snyderae are nice.  Good colors, spawn young, and can stay reasonably mid-size if not power-fed.

Title: Re: Tilapia snyderae
Post by: linuxrulesusa on April 23, 2013, 08:23:00 PM

Just picked these up today.  They have been fed well so are 2.5-4"...supposedly 1m 2f but had not bred for previous owner who had them in a 150.  They are in a 30 long with my West African oddballs.  With the option to move to the other 30 long if there are issues.

(http://i1167.photobucket.com/albums/q630/linuxrulesusa/tank%20pics%202013/20130423_195329_zps9b045565.jpg)