Michigan Cichlid Association

General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: TrailerParkFishTanks on June 15, 2013, 02:54:24 PM

Title: Pseudocrenilabrus nicholsi... has anyone had experience with them?
Post by: TrailerParkFishTanks on June 15, 2013, 02:54:24 PM: i did a little reading on them and it says they are pretty peaceful and only get about 4 inches. there are 5 variants. i just came across them the other day so i really dont know a lot about them. does anyone have any insight on them? are they hard to find? is there anything they should not be kept with?
Title: Re: Pseudocrenilabrus nicholsi... has anyone had experience with them?
Post by: linuxrulesusa on June 15, 2013, 03:24:18 PM: Read the Rick Borstein article (google search will turn it up), if you haven't already.

As far as obtaining some, I don't think they're very common, but I'm sure if you ask one of the better LFS e.g. Fins etc they can probably get them in.
Title: Re: Pseudocrenilabrus nicholsi... has anyone had experience with them?
Post by: auratus on June 15, 2013, 07:58:49 PM: Had them bred them personally i didnt have a lot of sucess babys seemed to die unexplained . Adults killed each other . But everyone seems to some times have problems with certain fish
Title: Re: Pseudocrenilabrus nicholsi... has anyone had experience with them?
Post by: GVsailor on June 16, 2013, 10:56:52 AM: I had the same issue when I had them. I lost a few, and the fry never made it. I also had females have eggs go bad in their mouths and turn into a tumor, which killed the fish.
Title: Re: Pseudocrenilabrus nicholsi... has anyone had experience with them?
Post by: Regalblue on June 16, 2013, 01:37:46 PM: Rambo13 had some luck with these. Try sending him a PM

I looked into getting some about 4yrs ago & talked to Bill Gilles about them. The one thing he told me that really stood out was - The fry are susceptible to changes in sex due to water parameters & to make sure you split up fry batches into a minimum of 2 tanks & have different Ph in those tanks.
Title: Re: Pseudocrenilabrus nicholsi... has anyone had experience with them?
Post by: four_by_ken on June 17, 2013, 10:15:01 AM: Fry changing set because of water parameters... amazed by this hobby all the time.
Title: Re: Pseudocrenilabrus nicholsi... has anyone had experience with them?
Post by: Regalblue on June 17, 2013, 11:31:16 AM: Quote from: four_by_ken on June 17, 2013, 10:15:01 AM
Fry changing set because of water parameters... amazed by this hobby all the time.

from What I gathered, it would be more like the fry developing different sexes depending on water parameters.
Title: Re: Pseudocrenilabrus nicholsi... has anyone had experience with them?
Post by: linuxrulesusa on June 17, 2013, 02:04:05 PM: Quote from: Regalblue on June 17, 2013, 11:31:16 AM
Quote from: four_by_ken on June 17, 2013, 10:15:01 AM
Fry changing set because of water parameters... amazed by this hobby all the time.

from What I gathered, it would be more like the fry developing different sexes depending on water parameters.

Kribensis are this way - fairly common for the West African cichlids, I believe.
Title: Re: Pseudocrenilabrus nicholsi... has anyone had experience with them?
Post by: Regalblue on June 17, 2013, 03:37:36 PM: Quote from: linuxrulesusa on June 17, 2013, 02:04:05 PM
Quote from: Regalblue on June 17, 2013, 11:31:16 AM
Quote from: four_by_ken on June 17, 2013, 10:15:01 AM
Fry changing set because of water parameters... amazed by this hobby all the time.

from What I gathered, it would be more like the fry developing different sexes depending on water parameters.

Kribensis are this way - fairly common for the West African cichlids, I believe.
That's what I'm led to believe. I don't have much experience with them, as I haven't had much interest in them.