my trip that ended with Amphilophus Festae.

[freebyrd]

SO i have been looking for quite the while for a large female festae. A member on here Mya, suggested I go to a place called Riverdale Pets in Washington DC. Well, DC is about 2 and a half hours from my house, just south of Richmond VA. I decided to make the drive after talking to the owner and he assured me he would have some. When I walked into the door I was amazed at the quite large dovii, citrinellums, red tiger motas, atromaculatus, and MUCH more. This place had LOTS of 5-13" festae, wild from Ecuador. I picked out the most fantastic looking male and female and gawked around at some other cool fish they had. GREAT trip (until i headed home, that 2.5 hour trip was 5 hours in traffic.) but WELL worth the trip. I think its pretty ironic that festae are hard to collect from the wild, and it was pretty difficult for ME to collect them from an out of state LFS the pictures do not do them justice.

 

[Mad About Cichlids]

Grats on the pickup. LFS usually get wild Festaes in twice a year.

 

[UMBEEKING]

Both are looking great. I wish i had a fish store like that out here in Riverside.

 

[MissLauraPeach]

Wow, I'd love to visit Riverdale Pets, but I think its a little too far for me! Lol!

 

[fishluvr12]

Nice pickups!

 

[Gruff Master]

Nice! Well worth the drive. I hope they breed for you.

 

[dragonsong]

Nice pickups!!

 

[ponce77]

Your a lucky guy! Great pick up!

 

[freebyrd]

thanks guys, the male is about 6" and the female is about 7" they are VERY active and awesome to watch. festae are by far my favorite fish, the female is a beast she doesnt let anyone aggrivate her