Mine changed color with mood, darker, lighter, sometimes more blue, sometimes a bit purplish, sometimes almost magenta in their fins.
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Mine changed color with mood, darker, lighter, sometimes more blue, sometimes a bit purplish, sometimes almost magenta in their fins.
Nice pics and nice looking fronts Ken! Thx for sharing mate!
neutrino
I appreciate your feed back re your Kaps. Do you have any input regarding Tembwe? Ever have them or know anyone that did? Breeding successes/failures?
I guess even moba aren’t prolific breeders like the Burundi types. What of the breeding activity of the Tanzania variants Kipili, Ikola, & Mpimbwe?
A friend of mine just got 3 trios of wild Kigoma from Alison. He’s had them a month and already has 14 fry from 1 female and 20 from another
neutrino
I appreciate your feed back re your Kaps. Do you have any input regarding Tembwe? Ever have them or know anyone that did? Breeding successes/failures?I guess even moba aren’t prolific breeders like the Burundi types. What of the breeding activity of the Tanzania variants Kipili, Ikola, & Mpimbwe?
A friend of mine just got 3 trios of wild Kigoma from Alison. He’s had them a month and already has 14 fry from 1 female and 20 from another
I knew some with Tembwe but don't remember them saying anything of note regarding breeding them. Tanzanian gibberosa were usually easier to breed vs Zaire/Congo, but now and then someone would have some very productive moba, mikula, etc. I think it depends a lot on individual fish when it comes to the 'Zaire blues.' Something I found is the alpha male can make a difference in breeding, something some others found also when not much would happen until they tried switching up males. But they're funny, not always predictable, for some people they didn't breed until the put them in a larger tank, for some they were breeding great until they switched tanks, for some they'd start breeding when they removed their second male, for some they bred when they added an extra male. All in all they had some of the most individual temperaments I've seen, and a lot smarter than some give them credit for. 
neutrino
thx for the input mate! Basically what you’re saying is we have to figure it out with each individual group! Ha. You’d think that was easy since they’re fish and were the (self exulted) more intelligent beings 
ken31cay
thanks for the update pics. Beautiful group. I can even see some variations in blue/purple color dependent on the individual fishes position in the tank and the amount of light it’s hanging in
Yes exactly, neutrino correctly mentioned that the fish change color according to mood but the shade of light also directly affects their blue color. I can watch my fish swim from a darker area of the tank into some light and see the blue color show on the fins & body. If they come under full spectrum light, then the blues really pop.
Besides lighting, it was also individual thing, I had a couple of males that liked to be dark all the time, others that changed constantly irrespective of where they were under the lights. Aside from when they were in a colorful mood, mine looked brilliant with lights off and sun hitting the tank in the morning.
...All this talk reminds me that I did a video, standard lighting, not LED, just a good bulb in a 4 ft strip light on a 6 ft tank. Never mind the stray rotkeil severum (I was breeding them and had them growing out all over the place) or the refugee from the Burundi tank I had going at the time.
This alpha was a beast, but gentle, 8 inches from 1.5 in a year, over 11" at 3 years in the video.
This alpha was a beast, but gentle, 8 inches from 1.5 in a year, over 11" at 3 years in the video.
Awesome....All this talk reminds me that I did a video, standard lighting, not LED, just a good bulb in a 4 ft strip light on a 6 ft tank. Never mind the stray rotkeil severum (I was breeding them and had them growing out all over the place) or the refugee from the Burundi tank I had going at the time.
This alpha was a beast, but gentle, 8 inches from 1.5 in a year, over 11" at 3 years in the video.
