Where are they now?

[katycichlid]

I was talking to a long-time LFS owner yesterday and both of us were wondering about a couple of species we had kept years ago and really haven't seen much of recently. One is the trout cichlid. I had a 12" male in a 200 which was absolutely gorgeous but hyper-dominant. The other fish was a kendalli. Sort of marbled pike fish which could also get after other fish. Anyone seen any big ones of either recently?

 

[Honda12]

My LFS has both for sale right now. They get them from a local cichlid breeder though that has like 80 differen't sp., and a couple of months ago I traded my big pair of champsochromis and some others for a pair of rays.

 

[Malawinut]

I've noticed that C. caeruleus is not as common as 5 years ago. C. spilorhynchus was never easily available, but I haven't seen them anywhere for some time. I can find their cousins of Buccochromis species much easier now.

 

[SphericalCube]

I've had the same problem. . . I don't see either of those at my LFS's lately and I have about 20 LFS's in my area. . . maybe just not much popular demand.

--Jimmy