Thanks Rico. I just might take you up on that offer for the female.
As far as the pic goes, lighting is key, along with the right color balance and camera settings. Practice makes perfect.
He gets a 'varied' diet. Pellets (mainly Hikari cichlid gold/bio gold, NLS), homemade food (contains Kens Cichlid pellets, raw shrimp w/shell, salmon, spirulina, and Cichlid Vital drops), Hikari krill, and jumbo raw shrimp (w/shell on). I have this other cichlid pellet that I can't think of right now (I'm at work) but he likes that too and it contains both spirulina and astaxanthin.