Copadichromis Borleyi

[jhutch]

I agree with tydus. Where did you get him? He looks a lot like the wild male I got a couple weeks ago. They have beautiful fins. Nice pick up.

 

[cichlidgirl]

There is one variant that has extremely long ventral fins. I always liked them in the pictures i have seen. I think yours is a very nice red finned borleyi. (kandango)

 

[Andri Pogo]

just got them at a LFS here in Iceland They got a nice shipment of wild caught africans.

 

[paulW]

yeah what you said actually is very right, my gf bought 5x 2-3" Frontosas yesterday and since then the Borleyi are much more out

Glad that worked. They are too pretty to be hiding all the time..

 

[web2844]

I guess you found your answer about their comfort with them breeding so fast. They are beautiful fish, and deserve that beautiful planted tank. I wouldn't add too many fish to that tank. Too much traffic may be rough on the plants, and that is a great planted tank.

 

[Andri Pogo]

My girlfriend decided to strip the female, she has been keeping the eggs/fry for 22 days and was getting worried about the fry since the other female was getting aggressive towards the "pregnant" one.
She did a great job and 9 beautiful fry came out. They were pretty big or ~1cm/0.5" but maybe thats just a normal size for mouthbrodders.
So now she is gonna raise these 9x F1 Borleyi´s

 

[tydus]

Nice fry. You can already see them starting to get the red on their fins. Awesome.

 

[Andri Pogo]

yeah those pics were taken around 30sec after they were released. Beautiful colors in them.

 

[tydus]

Are you really in iceland? I love your male. Do you sell fry?

 

[Andri Pogo]

yes sorry, im in Iceland
Im sure she is gonna sell some or all of the fry but unfortunatly the fish scene here is not so big.
But it would be interesting to try and ship to the states, dont know how or if it will work.