new duboisi and aulonocara? id please.

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danepatrick

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i picked up this duboisi for 12.99!!!!! ahhh. what a catch. he's about 2".

then i picked up this (what i believe to be an aulonocara specie) at petco the other day for 8.99!!! it's funny when the guys at the lfs have things in the wrong place. sorry for the bad quality pic, but do you think one of you guys could ID this fish for me? i'm sure you can't tell from the picture, but on his head and dorsil fin is this bright yellow stripe that runs from the tip of his nose back, and he also has a little on his tail.

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good luck with the Tropheus just remember lots and lots of veggi flakes little to no protein makes it kinda hard if you're keepin him with the Otoph. Litho. Also watch your nitrates make sure you keep up with the water changes.
 
You can feed tropheus what ever you want as long as you feed them veggies later. I feed mine brine shrimp all the time. But I make sure that I follow it up a few hours later with a veggie based food with no more than 35% protein in it. The fiber in the veggie food keeps the brine shrimp moving through the digestive track.

FYI: Don't feed it shrimp or worms before going to bed, it will sit in its stomach to long and cause problems.

Sorry Rob I didn't mean to flame you but I'm stating something that had been working for over a year. Maybe it will work for you too.
 
Not quite right, there.

Brine shrimp aren't so bad, but optimally, Tropheus should be fed vegetable matter, high in spirulina, or New Life Spectrum. They should never, ever be fed worms, beef heart, etc. Why? Because of their digestive system.

Fish that eat meat naturally have very short digestive tracts. This lets the meat go in and out without the fish getting too much in the way of nutrients. However, algae grazers such as Tropheus have very long digestive tracts. This way, the plant matter (which is lower in fats and proteins) lingers, and the fish can absorb as much of it as possible.

Don't overfeed, and feed the right things, and your fish will be fine. If not, you'll have a case of bloat on your hands faster than you can say "Clout".

You can keep Tropheus with other fish, but only if you're feeding New Life Spectrum, generally. This is the "great diet equalizer" which both more carnivorous fish, and more herbivorous fish, can both consume and remain healthy. If you intend to feed anything else, the Duboisi needs not to be in that tank. (They do best in species, or near-species tanks, in colonies of at least 18.)
 
I agree that you should try and keep the Tropheus away from too much protein. Their diet, in Lake Tanganyika, is only algae. Try and grow your own algae to feed to your fish. If you want to keep some you should look at a minimum of 20 fish in a tank as these fish are far more aggressive than the Malawi mbuna. If you have a couple in a tank they will eventually kill each other off.
Try and post a better pic of the second fish.
:naughty: :woot: :clap :headbang2 :thumbsup:
 
Honda12 said:
Sounds like an otopharanx lithobates. It a malawi hap. I can't think of any peacocks that are blue with a yellow stripe. The only peacock with a yellow stripe is the sulfer head peacock but those are black not blue. Although a better picture would help to better identify.
http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=2292
http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=653
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otopharanx lithobates is EXACTLY it. now that i see the picture, WOW. :WHOA:
identical. thanks honda 12.

referring to the duboisi comments, i feed my fish hikari cichlid excel pellets, optimum spectrum pellets, and i also about twice a week, clip green marine algae to the side of my tank. i do believe that my herbies are getting what they need, yed? :woot:
 
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