Michigan Cichlid Association
Pics and Video => Fish pics => Topic started by: lilscoots on October 27, 2014, 08:08:02 PM
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My LFS took down their 450 gallon male african tank and sold the fish inside. I picked up 2 fish from the bunch, the others had already been sold before I knew the tank was being redone.
I picked up an 8" Aristochromis chistyi and a 6" Copadichromis chrysonotus. Snapped a couple of pics with my phone so the photos aren't the best. These two will join my other boys in my 180 after a time of quarantine, and will eventually make it into a 425 gallon I plan on building.
a shot of both of them
(http://i1175.photobucket.com/albums/r637/eltrafan/2014-10-27_17-17-13_159_zps8842ef10.jpg)
the Aristochromis christyi - not really showing color at the moment, but blue scales are visible throughout the body and there's a bit of color behind the gill plates as well as in the face.
(http://i1175.photobucket.com/albums/r637/eltrafan/2014-10-27_17-17-33_370_zps730472b0.jpg)
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Nice additions!
Do you happen to have any pictures of the LFS tank before they removed the africans? It seems like really big african tanks aren't very common.
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Couple of nice species there
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the Aristochromis christy
NICE I want one of them for myself
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I was very surprised that the christyi wasn't spoken for as most of the other big haps were when I got there.
It was a squarish 450 gallon, and a couple of years ago it was almost 90% haps and the fish looked great. Then they started adding a lot more mbuna and the haps started looking a lot worse.
I don't have any pics of the tank.
As of today they had a group of Copadichromis "viginialis golds" in there and they looked great, not sure what else they'll be adding but hoping they stick with some other "peaceful" hap or peacock groups.