Istlanums and yellow labridens

[1fatdovii]

I moved my larger pair to a 55 gallon tonight, but the male seems to be too aggressive (as you can see from the third picture) so I may have to separate them.


A couple shots of my yellow labs, pretty cool to see they're finally showing color.

 

[cookiemonster]

Great fish! The istlanums are stunners!

 

[1fatdovii]

Thanks.

 

[darthodo]

Luv those istlanums. Thanks for posting.

 

[balton777]

Your my new Istlanum hero.

 

[davidefc]

Very nice collection of rare cichlids they look stunning. are they wild caught?
Do you know the sex of the labs yet? mojo recently bred his pair they have amazing breeding dresses, like all herichthys

 

[suPaduPA]

WOW! That Istlanumsis awesome!..soo friggin hard to find em now a days..man..wish i had that fish =(

 

[1fatdovii]

Thanks guys.

davidefc, I'm not sure of the sex of the yellows yet, but they are wild caught. I have two that are starting to show color, hopefully I can get at least a pair out of the group. It's that time of the year and fish want to breed, I just noticed my bartonis laid eggs. Hopefully the istlanums do the same.

 

[davidefc]

You have a nice taste for cichlids, i have herichthys pantostictus and carpintis. i was going to go for some bartoni'sbut didnt due to they are prone to bloat so iam getting grammodes insted.....have you had any problems with yours? i was going to get them from conkel. also what size are they?

 

[1fatdovii]

Thanks, those pantos are very cool and super aggressive IME. I lost a couple bartonis due to bloat a few weeks ago and in my opinion they're pretty delicate. For some reason the problems came after feeding them frozen food (bloodworms and brine shrimp). I did'nt think it would be a problem since that's part of all my other fish's diet. I now feed them very lightly flakes and anti-parasite medicated fish food to avoid problems. I don't see them eat, but they must be eating it.