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| Norbert |
 May 10 2009, 01:06 AM
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it's all in the reflexes
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Which group of Old World Cichlids do you prefer? Feel free to share why  -The "Other" category can include Tilapia, Hemichromis, West African Dwarves etc
Jack Burton "And you'll go off to rule the universe from beyond the grave?" Lo Pan "Indeed!" My "someday" fish....Heterotis niloticus |
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| fishing4exotics |
May 10 2009, 03:44 PM
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GRRRR.....It's cold!
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I've kept, bred and I'm partial to the species that belong to the lake Tanganyikan region. I'm amazed at the diversity of its inhabitants. The beautiful colour, patterns and shapes of some species that rival that of marine animals. I'm filled with wonder as to how, where, why, what niche, have the various species evolved, and adapted to in their environment. I like observing their interesting behaviors. I look forward to learning about newly discovered species. At one point, I had tanks with nothing but Tanganyikan fish.
In the past I've considered the idea of visiting Tanganyika, look around the lake, go to location spots that I've read about and observe species in their native habitat.
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| Norbert |
May 21 2009, 09:32 PM
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it's all in the reflexes
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QUOTE(fishing4exotics @ May 10 2009, 01:44 PM) 
I've kept, bred and I'm partial to the species that belong to the lake Tanganyikan region. I'm amazed at the diversity of its inhabitants. The beautiful colour, patterns and shapes of some species that rival that of marine animals. I'm filled with wonder as to how, where, why, what niche, have the various species evolved, and adapted to in their environment. I like observing their interesting behaviors. I look forward to learning about newly discovered species. At one point, I had tanks with nothing but Tanganyikan fish.
In the past I've considered the idea of visiting Tanganyika, look around the lake, go to location spots that I've read about and observe species in their native habitat.
Do you have a favorite species, Perry? Or at least a favorite genus? QUOTE(Marconi @ May 15 2009, 09:40 PM)
Everybody starts with malawi...but I find if your taste becomes refined you eventually end up with Tangs.
Its like wine drinkers who started with white and now only drink red.
I started with Malawi as well Marconi, mbuna of course, moved on to Tanganyikan and dabbled with Victorian, now I'm back to Malawi...I need more tanks 
Jack Burton "And you'll go off to rule the universe from beyond the grave?" Lo Pan "Indeed!" My "someday" fish....Heterotis niloticus |
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| fishing4exotics |
May 22 2009, 12:06 AM
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GRRRR.....It's cold!
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QUOTE(Norbert @ May 21 2009, 07:32 PM)
Do you have a favorite species, Perry? Or at least a favorite genus?
I was obsessed with Tropheus. I had several breeding colonies in large tanks. My favorite is Tropheus moori "Ilangi". Their colour is amazing! I had wild caught specimens that had dark blue faces, bright red dorsals, red anal fins and bright yellow bodies. This is a close representation of the "Ilangi" I had, except the bodies on my Tropheus' were completely bright yellow, instead of having any brown colour, and the dorsals were bright red:  I use to do fish runs from the San Francisco Bay Area to LA airport to meet my importer, Russ Utsler, as he received his African shipments. I would just pay him on the spot, took the boxes of fish from him and went right back home.  On my way back home, from one of the SF to LA fish runs, I got a ticket for going 99mph.  Russ sold me the 1st batch of Zaire blue frontosas (gibberosa) that were collected 12 years ago. They weren't available for over 10 years before that, because of a civil war in Congo/Zaire. I also had several other species of wild caught fish from Russ. Too bad he's not in business anymore.  |
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| Norbert |
Jun 9 2009, 01:55 AM
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it's all in the reflexes
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QUOTE(fishing4exotics @ May 21 2009, 10:06 PM)
I was obsessed with Tropheus. I had several breeding colonies in large tanks. My favorite is Tropheus moori "Ilangi". Their colour is amazing! I had wild caught specimens that had dark blue faces, bright red dorsals, red anal fins and bright yellow bodies. This is a close representation of the "Ilangi" I had, except the bodies on my Tropheus' were completely bright yellow, instead of having any brown colour, and the dorsals were bright red:
Beautiful, beautiful fish Perry. I've never kept Tropheus before but have always wanted to. I think the large numbers recommended (and the cost  ) to disperse aggression have prevented me from trying them. Maybe someday...I say that alot since I found this site QUOTE(fishing4exotics @ May 21 2009, 10:06 PM) On my way back home, from one of the SF to LA fish runs, I got a ticket for going 99mph.  that ticket had to hurt Starting to see a trend in the favorite region for Old Worlds.
Jack Burton "And you'll go off to rule the universe from beyond the grave?" Lo Pan "Indeed!" My "someday" fish....Heterotis niloticus |
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| joesfish |
Jun 9 2010, 12:16 AM
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Perry, very nice story.
I got to say my favorite are the Frontosa, Tropheus, and Petrochromis. I just can't decide which ones I like more. I love my Yellow Moshi Petrochromis, Tropheus Red Rainbow, Tropheus Ilangi, Tropheus Musanga, Tropheus Ikola, Frontosa Kapampa, Moba, Mpimbwe, Tanzanite, Bismark and Burundi. I also have always hard to have catfish and can't depart with some of my favorites. I really like the Decorus Synodontis because it only gets 12" which is big for a synodontis but small for most cats. The Multipunctatus group I have is cool too and I loved the Syno petricola too.
Do you still have the Ilangi?
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