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I would like to point out that that pic is wearing thin, pretty quick.. ;)
 
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one of my favorites:
 

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Rover":2q6temkr said:
I would like to point out that African cichlids are basically all the same fish.

No, they are not. I hope you're joking.

Or, are you saying that all Africans look the same? :D

Jim
 
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manguenese cichlids.......... big mean and fun to breed.



(please no wife jokes) :lol:
 
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Last time I checked I checked, your wife was just big and mean....
:lol: :lol:
 
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Fun to breed? Last person I knew who did ended up with a dead female from the males agressions.
 
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They are VERY easy to breed. Anyone who ends up with a dead female obviously doesn't know what he or she is doing. Either the tank was too small, or they've never heard of the "incomplete divider method".
This is a simple, and frankly common knowledge method for breeding large, aggressive cichlids. With N. managuensis though, even this is often not required. I've bred them a dozen times or so.


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all kidding aside,
i had great luck with a trio. 2 males and a female. the dominate male would spend more time defending the female from the other male and would only get aggressive with her after a spot was cleared on a rock. i think the most important thing was tank size. i never bred them in anything less than a 135. i moved the rock to an incubating tank immediatly after the eggs were laid and the dominate male would return to defending her.
the hard part was finding room to grow out 800 to 1000 little mouths that were very canablistic!
 
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JimM":1kjmx774 said:
Rover":1kjmx774 said:
I would like to point out that African cichlids are basically all the same fish.

No, they are not. I hope you're joking.

Or, are you saying that all Africans look the same? :D

Jim

Yeah, they all have the same basic body shape and behaviours, but with a different color scheme. Kind of like a honda with different options a paint job. ;)

We have an awesome managuense in our display tank at the store, I need to take some more pics.
 
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I see. Well you're talking about the Mbuna group of Lake Malawi then. Pseudoropheus, cynotilapia, labeotrophus, etc. "African cichlids" are a group of fish that are extremely diverse however, and encompass much more than the Mbuna. You have everything from surf dwellers to huge open water predators, not to mention 3 lakes all with vastly different genera. In fact, old world cichlids show a much wider range of diversity than new world cichlids from Central and South American. :wink:

Thus endeth the lesson for today. :P

Jim
 
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Rover":yu6q13ez said:
JimM":yu6q13ez said:
Rover":yu6q13ez said:
I would like to point out that African cichlids are basically all the same fish.

No, they are not. I hope you're joking.

Or, are you saying that all Africans look the same? :D

Jim

Yeah, they all have the same basic body shape and behaviours, but with a different color scheme. Kind of like a honda with different options a paint job. ;)

We have an awesome managuense in our display tank at the store, I need to take some more pics.

both your exposure to, and selection of, africans must be severely limited :P


frontosa and calvus are 2 very available africans that are completely different, in shape, color, behavior

i would venture that the african cichlids of even just the 2 lakes are actually one of the most diversified groups of fish-from body shape to behavior

everything from shell dwellers to open pit spawners, as well as mouth brooders

/me pimp slaps rover :P
 

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Oh really? Whoops, LOL. :P For some reason it shows up on my comp though- guess because I have them all in the cache.

Well, here are the links!

(edited because the links didn't work..[insert Yosemite Sam substitutes for cursing])

Hope the point is made, anyway. :roll: You should try reading "The Cichlid Fishes." Might have you seeing differently- it's all about the extreme diversity between many kinds of African and other cichlids.
 
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They look the same to me they all look like this: :)


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...all the links do?

The Internet must have something against me today.

How about these ones then? :roll:

http://www.theboulets.net/cichlid_pix2/zaire_blue.jpg
http://www.fototime.com/FEBA22ED875A1E0/standard.jpg
http://www.akwafoto.pl/fotoreport/gorzow2001/pseudotropheus_elongatus.jpg
http://www.theboulets.net/cichlid_pix2/orangeFin.jpg
http://www.tanganika.inet.pl/galeria/robercik/eretmodus4.jpg
http://www.petsforum.com/aquageo/Posters/Images/E0605.jpg

Anyway, if those don't work then just go to cichlid-forum.com and look at the gallery. They aren't the same fish with a different color scheme.

I'm done now. :P
 

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