Been super busy the past few months and have not been on this site much. Things are finally starting to slow down a bit. I took some time to clean and re-aquscape my 240-gallon tank last week. One of the females dropped a tube and spawned a couple days ago. Prior to the spawn, my alpha was on the war path chasing and tagging any intruders that went near his love shack. Here's some images I captured.... hope you like pics 
Center rock cluster with Tau (my alpha)
In this image, Tau sprinted after one of the sub dominant males and turned on a dime
Tau (left) and one of the sub dominant males (right) pressing his luck
Center rock cluster (or half of it anyways)
Close up of the same image
Tau chasing one of the other males into the rock cluster. I love this particular color mode super contrast between the white and black stripes and he also lightens up the blue in his face mask so it contrasts with his mask. I call this "War Paint Mode."
Tau going vertical near the soon to be spawning female
I took some pics of the holding mom in the left rock cluster. I'll add those to this thread in the future. Oh, btw, these are one of my wild caught Cyphotilapia gibberosa (Zaire Blue Mikula) groups.
Cheers,
Russ
Center rock cluster with Tau (my alpha)
In this image, Tau sprinted after one of the sub dominant males and turned on a dime
Tau (left) and one of the sub dominant males (right) pressing his luck
Center rock cluster (or half of it anyways)
Close up of the same image
Tau chasing one of the other males into the rock cluster. I love this particular color mode super contrast between the white and black stripes and he also lightens up the blue in his face mask so it contrasts with his mask. I call this "War Paint Mode."
Tau going vertical near the soon to be spawning female
I took some pics of the holding mom in the left rock cluster. I'll add those to this thread in the future. Oh, btw, these are one of my wild caught Cyphotilapia gibberosa (Zaire Blue Mikula) groups.
Cheers,
Russ
