Blue Zaire Frontoza

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Congrats Percy! He is a great looking gibberosa. At that size he has recently become mature. With the right tank mates, his trailers will get really long. I really like his mask too.

Guessing collection points between Zaires is not easy; however, he sure looks like what I would call an original or TR Kapampa. Has your source given you an hints as to his collection point?
 
Razzo said:
Congrats Percy! He is a great looking gibberosa. At that size he has recently become mature. With the right tank mates, his trailers will get really long. I really like his mask too.

Guessing collection points between Zaires is not easy; however, he sure looks like what I would call an original or TR Kapampa. Has your source given you an hints as to his collection point?
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Thank you Razzo. Help me out here. What are collection points?
 
Percy Mitchell said:
Thank you Razzo. Help me out here. What are collection points?
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Here's the short story Percy...

Genus: Cyphotilpia
Species: frontosa and gibberosa
Variant: Sp. North (Burundi), Tanzanian, Zambian, and Zaire
Collection Point: i.e. A few from Zaire.... Mikula, Kapampa, Moba, Kitumba, etc.

Your male is a Cyphotilapia gibberosa, Zaire, ???

Variants are easy to distinguish between and not so easy to tell differences between CPs from a variant. This is why I can only guess that your boy is from Kapampa. We rely on what the collectors at the lake say they are (which has the possibility of being problematic with natives selling fish lake side) and what ends up being labelled on a shipping manifest. Then our importers receive them and market them as such.

Btw: Zaire is the DRC (the Congo). The Congo was known as Zaire before the natives ran off, the Belgians I think?

Got any more questions? Ask away!

Cheers,
Russ
 
Do me a favor, describe his breathing, when he is most restful (his "calm" breathing). Be as descriptive as possible or shoot a video.

Thanks,
Russ
 
I can only distinguish Burundi Frontosa from Gibberosa variants from south of the lake based on the face mask. I went to a Frontosa breeder and he has several Gibberosa variants in tanks placed side by side and I couldn't tell the difference. I currently have a Samazi and a Tembwe Zaire grow out and wait to see if they look different when mature.

In my previous experience, Burundi and Mbembwe turned dark when mature. The OP Zaire retains the blueness at 22 cm, and so are mine at 3 and 6 inch. Not sure if Zaire or Samazi will ever lose the blueness and turn dark in maturity.
 
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Razzo said:
Here's the short story Percy...

Genus: Cyphotilpia
Species: frontosa and gibberosa
Variant: Sp. North (Burundi), Tanzanian, Zambian, and Zaire
Collection Point: i.e. A few from Zaire.... Mikula, Kapampa, Moba, Kitumba, etc.

Your male is a Cyphotilapia gibberosa, Zaire, ???

Variants are easy to distinguish between and not so easy to tell differences between CPs from a variant. This is why I can only guess that your boy is from Kapampa. We rely on what the collectors at the lake say they are (which has the possibility of being problematic with natives selling fish lake side) and what ends up being labelled on a shipping manifest. Then our importers receive them and market them as such.

Btw: Zaire is the DRC (the Congo). The Congo was known as Zaire before the natives ran off, the Belgians I think?

Got any more questions? Ask away!

Cheers,
Russ
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Thanks Russ. Yeah I know Congo was Zaire before. Lol I am from Africa and have travelled the continent. I find the iformation you sent me interesting and will do more research to try and get a bit more up to speed. Thanks for you assistance. I will surely contact you with more questions.
 
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