Black Congo Calvus

[Razzo]

Very excited to have altolamps again! I broke down and ordered a wild group of Altolamprologus calvus (Black Congo Calvus) from Greg at Little Africa Aquatics (2m/3f). So happy with them! They are still very shy and hard to photograph without feeding them, based on past groups of altolamps, I trust this will improve). Pics are a few days old. They have since started getting much darker (which I like). I'll add more photos as they become less shy; but, here's a few early pics for starters...

Large show male

One of the females being VERY shy

 

[stempy]

Stunning, I'm quite jealous! One of my favorites from the lake (behind cyatho's)

 

[House 64]

One of my favorites when I kept Altos! Nice size group too Razzo!

 

[kewpiefishypewpie]

Is it best to keep these guys in a species specific tank? Or do they do okay with other Altolamprologus?

 

[Razzo]

Is it best to keep these guys in a species specific tank? Or do they do okay with other Altolamprologus?

That's a tricky question. In my experience, when you have three or more males of each species, they completely ignore the other species... even when spawning. Also, when keeping one species, you need to either do one male or three plus males otherwise there will be a war with a looser.

 

[Fisher...]

otherwise there will be a war with a looser.

I like that wording Russ, very appropriate! lol

 

[Razzo]

I like that wording Russ, very appropriate! lol

Hey John,

Welcome to MFK! Glad to have you over here. Your vast experience with Tangs will be most welcome!

Russ

 

[Hoplo]

Very pretty fish there, I am sad that I am not able to get there here.

 

[Fisher...]

Hey John,

Welcome to MFK! Glad to have you over here. Your vast experience with Tangs will be most welcome!

Russ

Thanks Russ! I've got a couple hundred posts here under a different username somewhere but I haven't been on here for quite awhile and I lost my little book with all my old usernames and passwords. I remember "fisher" being taken and I used some other weird name but I can't remember it for the life of me. lol I got smart and just added a couple periods this time though. (and made a duplicate copy of my new little secret code book. lol)