So my local stores are going with selling all of their smaller African cichlids from one tank and labeling them "Mixed Africans". They may have as many as ten species of cichlids in there and unless you are an expert in mbuna you can`t tell what they are. They are doing the same thing with their peacocks. A bunch of silvery fish and who is to know one from the other. I want to know what I am buying and not wait a year for my fish to color up to find out! To me it shows a lack of respect for the fish. Doesn`t each species deserve to be labeled so you know what you are looking at?
I have informed both stores that I will not buy fish from these tanks, especially the peacocks. Is any one else annoyed by this practice or am I just getting old and crotchety?
I have been keeping fish for over fifty years and of course I can identify many of the fish, particularly the mbuna, but the peacocks not so much. Most of my years have been spent on CA cichlids with only short periods with Africans and up until now never peacocks. Oh, and by the way they don`t treat their Tanganyikan cichlids this way. Each species get it`s own tank and a proper label.
I have informed both stores that I will not buy fish from these tanks, especially the peacocks. Is any one else annoyed by this practice or am I just getting old and crotchety?
I have been keeping fish for over fifty years and of course I can identify many of the fish, particularly the mbuna, but the peacocks not so much. Most of my years have been spent on CA cichlids with only short periods with Africans and up until now never peacocks. Oh, and by the way they don`t treat their Tanganyikan cichlids this way. Each species get it`s own tank and a proper label.