Michigan Cichlid Association
General Category => Old World => Topic started by: djlamonica on January 26, 2014, 10:01:22 AM
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Some of you know I've been looking for one last group of Tropheus, I've been going back and fourth was thinking illangi, then bemba also looking for purple lufubu with no luck. I came across a really good deal and got F1 tropheus Polli very excited for them to arrive I'll probably hold off on shipping until the a little warmer weather. Cant wait pics to follow and will try and do a grow out thread for them as these are not very common!
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Are those the ones with the really blue eyes?
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yes there whiteish with blue eyes
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Some reason I was thinking they were gray. Cool find. Good luck
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When I read this thread title, I said "don't tell me this @$$4013 got these now?!?" to myself, Lol.
VERY nice pick up, Dan!
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Cool, I want make sure that I keep every species of Tropheus in my life time
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Well finally figured out the details getting 20 going to hold off on shipping until next week when the weather is a bit nicer. I'm also adding 8 tropheus ulwilie tiger to my group of 15 i nabbed at the auction. The parents look really nice and I'm glad Ill have two separate blood lines.
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I have a buddy that selling some Nice WC Polli Bulu Points if you're interested.
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Alright a little update on these and a few others.
I have basically have been buying tropheus all winter, but with the weather no one was willing to ship. With it warming up next week I have a ton of stuff coming in here is a rough list of what should be arriving.
3/11- 20x tropheus Polli bulu point
12x tropheus moori katoto
3/12- 18xtropheus brichardi kabimba canary cheek
3/13- 20-tropheus moorii purple lufubu
10ish - tropheus moorii ilangi
This was supposed to be all lufubu but he didnt have enough and I need to have 30 to keep my bulk pricing. Unfortunately I just had to cancel an order of illangi so these 10 may go up for sale.
3 or 4 weeks I have tropheus moorii nkonde being held with a deposit.
The new fish room will be 9 tropheus groups and 2 south american tanks. I had a pretty big set back that caused me to cancel some orders and put some stuff on hold, wasn't able to pick up the tanks I wanted some I'm making due with what i have for now. Most of these fish are fry so they can handle grow outs until I can get proper set up in place.
Either way Ill defiantly do my best to get some pictures and maybe some unboxing videos if time allows.
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Oh Dan you should have held off a bit...
I just got an Exceptional WC Colony of Nkonde... Wouldn't have had to pay shipping.
Let me know if you want more.
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Always nice to have a few blood lines with F1's so im sure I'll add some of yours to my group. Did you get the ulwile tigers as well? I wasnt able to get the other 8 I ordered. So i just have the group of 15.
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Makes sense as long as you keep the colonies separate amd only put the mles from one and the females frm the other together... otherwise you have no way of knowing if either sex are spawning woth the other bloodline.
Yep, Ulwile are in the states and being medicated and debugged as we speak. About 3 weeks out from arrival.
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Shipment never came today and Wednesday shipment moved to next week due to weather....good start.
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Yep. Unfortunately it happens. I've been waiting on my WC Ulwile for some time. But they'll be exceptional I'm sure. Deff worth the Wait.
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http://youtu.be/dHcDx1yb3hw
Here they are video came out like crap lol oh well
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Good to see you finally get them, Dan.
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Something very strange is happening to this group and I cant put my finger on it. Basically I have lost 5 fish in the past few weeks and this is what happens. Basically the largest fish in the group will go to the left of my tank, wont eat will just begin to seem off. This will go on for a few days then the fish will die. It started with the largest fish in the tank and has been the next largest after and so on. Stomachs are not engorged, fish looks 100% healthy except it stops eating and separates itself from the group. The last 2 I watched threw the whole process. A day or so after the last one died the next largest in the group starts hanging around the left side of the tank stops eating never joins the group and then dies. I can see no visual issues with these fish at all. Ive tested my water multiple times just the basics everything is normal PH 7.6 ish I use small amounts of aquarium salt and a small amount of cichlid buffer exact same as my other 8 tropheus tanks. 50% water changes primed weekly tank is way over filtered and the fish are 2"-2 1/2" 15 left in the tank 60g.
The odd thing was I had a similar situation with my Ulwilie tiger group. Where I lost the 3 largest fish in the group but this was three consecutive days and when checking my water my nitrates were around 40 ppm higher then I'd like them of course. Other strange thing about both these situations was in both circumstances the rest of the fish all seemed incredibly normal in fact in both tanks there was breeding behavior being displayed the same day as the larger fish were dieing.
My first thought was bloat of course so diet is key here. I feed 50% NLS 50% spirilina flake. I do occasionally feed a random flake or pellet from my stash to change it up. The most recent I feed was a mixture of plecocain and Kens green pellet. Both tanks had small portions of this mix a single time a couple days before I lost my first Ulwilie tiger its been a few weeks since the Pollis had this. After I lost the first Polli I have fed only Kens tropheus lovers flake and I have also fed them a small amount of Thera A.
Realistically I'm probably thinking about this to much and chances are it has to do with diet whether it the NLS which I know some people aren't fans of or maybe the plecocain mixture. But what is super strange to me is that every time it seems to be the largest fish in the tank. Almost seems like there getting kicked out of the group, but being the largest fish in the tank it's usually the opposite where groups will kick the smallest weakest ones out. Maybe the larger fish are dieing because they are consuming more that could be the reason as well.
Anyways thought I'd share since I just scooped another one out of the tank and I basically watched the whole process and knew the fish was going to be dead when I came home and sure enough he was even though in appearance the fish seemed 100% healthy.
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If I recall correctly, Pete Durkin (who has kept/bred) numerous species of Tropheus always fed his spirulina flake and frozen brine shrimp.
I don't know if diet is the issue here, unless the largest fish is eating the most pellets and its intestinal tract is getting blocked faster. You could try adding Epsom salt to the water to attempt to clear out their intestinal tracts.