I don't think it is a Met. lombardoi - but with the colors being shown in the photos, it could be any of the Metriaclima species. You still haven't mentioned the size of the tank it is being housed in.
iv had a blue malawi now for 2 years
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I meant resembles kenyi, but considering the number and size of stripes... prob not. The tank size is a very good question though..
5x2x2 he's with a pleco a bush fish n a baby tsn. N don't anyone moan that the tanks to small for the tsn coz it only staying in there till about 18 inches then my new 6x3x2 custom made tank will b set up
5' X 2' X 2' sounds like a good mbuna tank. I don't know what a bush fish or baby TSN is.... but I doubt they have any effect on why your one mbuna is killing everything. I don't really know what species you have but he/she may need to be replaced. How many fish are you adding at one time? Are you rearranging the tank at all when you add new fish?
I'd replace him. He looks rather big. Adding a lot of fish at once might help but unless there are many, emphasis on many, small places for them to go where he cannot pursue them.. then they will likely die from stress or physical harm. Also even with many hiding places there would likely be some not-so-dominant small guys getting kicked out of hiding by the more dominant small guys. Which will eventually wear the numbers down. I'd start fresh with a bunch of smaller or equal sized fish.
A bush fish is also called a climbing perch. It's a labirynth fish and tsn is short for tiger shovelnose catfish.
No not adding a lot at once originally I had him n 4 clown loaches and a silver aro. But het killed 3 of the loaches and had a tear up with the aro which caused him drop eye in one eye. Might just let tsn eat the little sxxt lol
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Be sure to Vid that... Probably gonna be entertaining, and will only happen once. Africans are fast so I'd like to see one that big Scurry LOL
I now have a better understanding of why your tank isn't working out. There is a rhyme and reason to the usual advice of not mixing cichlids (and other fish) from different continents. The social dynamics are very different....
if that is a zebra there is your problem
I had one I called Rocky the red and the little bugger went from tank to tank until he finally peeved me off enough to throw him in the 300g with the big boys. Sure enough he went to trying to boss around the big cichlids 10 times his size. End of story Rocky was half the man he used to be the next morning and I took great satisfaction as I watched the catfish pick his carcass clean.
I had one I called Rocky the red and the little bugger went from tank to tank until he finally peeved me off enough to throw him in the 300g with the big boys. Sure enough he went to trying to boss around the big cichlids 10 times his size. End of story Rocky was half the man he used to be the next morning and I took great satisfaction as I watched the catfish pick his carcass clean.
