Saulosi - my favourite Malawi species...

Have to say, Saulosi are definitely my favourite species.

You've go stunning bright yellow females, and lovely deep blue and black males, with a little bit more colour on the fins.

Add to that, they stay small as a dwarf mbuna, and their temperament is relatively peaceful with other mbuna and even their own kind.

I have 16 of these little beasts in my 400L tank. 3 of which have turned blue.

Here's my dominant male. Not the best pic, but I like he is in full finnage and 2 of his females that are holding fry, are also in the pic. He's a busy fella.



And here's a video of the tank;

[video=youtube;0DN6ztN7u5I]http://youtu.be/0DN6ztN7u5I?list=UURAGyEAMb0210Xw28B1gpDg[/video]

Good pic that Oddball, the change is fascinating to see...you wouldn't think something like that was possible. Shame you had to part with them Timbo, they look like great fish.

I tend to notice quite a bit of variation in Saulosi when I see pics and videos...is that just a sign of quality or are there a few variations?

Thanks mate, I have 16x of the Saulosi. But 3x of them were bought from a local shop and are indeed coral red. 9/10 shops here only stock the coral red saulosi. The natural ones seem much rarer in the retail trade. Thankfully, there does seem to be a decent amount of breeders around selling the normal saulosi. I remember seeing a video a while back where tank bred Saulosi were being released back into the lake to try and replenish supplies, hopefully it will work.

As an interesting side note, my Coral Red Saulosi seem to have no interaction with my regular Saulosi...instead, my coral red saulosi breed with my single male Greshekai. Just thought that was kind of interesting.

edit: Here's that vid mentioned above; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_s9nu2ncrg