Charlie

[SinisterKisses]

Charlie is the A. compressiceps that I bought on a whim last week. He seems to be getting more and more settled in every day, and he's started to spend more time out and about - making it easier to get better, clearer photos of him! Its really easy to do if I coax him out with some brine shrimp too...he loves that stuff. Anyway, here's a few from today.

In his favorite cave

Hunting for brine shrimp

Cruising around

More hunting

 

[Ang]

Awsome fish!

Very nice clear pics.

 

[IMFishHead]

Charlie is way cool!

 

[SinisterKisses]

Thanks! I love him, he's my new obsession. I'm getting two more comps, and 6 inkfin calvus within the next week or two, so that Charlie will have buddies

 

[DIESELMACK]

he looks smokin...very nice fish

 

[Deathcurl]

Compressiceps and Calvus were my absolute favorite Tankganyikan Cichlids . Have you had the pleasure of seeing their defense postures yet?

 

[SinisterKisses]

I haven't. I've only had Charlie for about a week, and he's currently by himself (except a couple dithers). However, I've set up with a breeder to buy 4 Inkfin calvus, and 2 more comps, plus another 2 inkfins from a friend of mine. I'm totally excited to get them all together.

 

[Deathcurl]

Nice! The way they defend themselves is to arch their sides towards their attacker to expose the scale edges. As the attacker bites, he gets a nicely cut lip. Some of my other cichlids learned their lesson the hard way, haha. Although it's kinda savage, it's pretty neat to watch. Eventually the calvus/compressiceps keep everyone in check.

 

[SinisterKisses]

Sounds cool, I'll have to keep an eye out for it. Lol who knows, maybe Charlie will find the need to defends himself against the evil dithers