Got 4 today - would love to hear your experiences, etc. They are about an inch. Very unusual looking. If you look on YouTube there are some videos - very different looking fish.
Paratilapia noosibeensis
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Are the noose's Ptychochromis or Paratilapia? I have never kept Paratilapia, so never had a reason to keep up with current taxonomy. Beautiful fish!
Ptyochromis nossibeensis is now considered a geographic variant of P. oligacanthus (http://www.cichlidae.com/gallery/species.php?id=353)
They're a great and really unusual fish from Madagascar. They're very hungry fish but not too aggressive. I've kept them with West Africans, mostly.
Here's a picture of a big male (from my old pair) unhappy in a fish show (he won first in class). They'll get 6-7" eventually!
They're pretty undemanding other than making sure that they don't beat on each other (males, especially will), keeping them warm and changing the water.
I have a pair of young pair of them growing out as we speak.
Don't keep them with convicts - they'll get beat up.
Jim - it's been a couple of years since I bred these guys. What do you do to spur spawning?
Matt
They're a great and really unusual fish from Madagascar. They're very hungry fish but not too aggressive. I've kept them with West Africans, mostly.
Here's a picture of a big male (from my old pair) unhappy in a fish show (he won first in class). They'll get 6-7" eventually!
They're pretty undemanding other than making sure that they don't beat on each other (males, especially will), keeping them warm and changing the water.
I have a pair of young pair of them growing out as we speak.
Don't keep them with convicts - they'll get beat up.
Jim - it's been a couple of years since I bred these guys. What do you do to spur spawning?
Matt