my extra male bartoni above, about 2 years old, and maybe 5"
below, finally fished out this female beani from the tank it was born in, and dropped it into a divided 6ft tank, with a male on the other side.
some bocourti that share the tank with the above bartoni, and some Madagasi cichlids
and just for grins the new shoal of Etroplus canarensis.
They seem more like salt water reef fish the way the shoal and move.
May be because of their isolation from other cichlids in India has left them in an almost prehistoric (cichlidically speaking) than their other more widespread cousins.