A couple of new fish (phone pics)

[lilscoots]

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


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.

[Ron]

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.

[Regalblue]

Couple of nice species there

[Steve]

the Aristochromis christy

NICE I want one of them for myself

[lilscoots]

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.