Even more fishy pics!

I never get tired of taking fish pics

Spawning acara...





Betta edithae, a great intro to wild type bettas, these are medium sized mouth brooders and they readily and regularly spawn (even on a strictly high quality flake food diet)...


The julies you all heard Pittbull scrambling for a couple of weeks ago...


A peckolita species I haven't bothered to id yet, cool looking little things...


One of a couple of cutteri pairs we have currently. We have about a dozen of these for sale at the shop right now that this pair produced, they are quite small (less than 1 inch currently) but a cheap way to get a great fish...


Male Apistogramma panduro. We have one pair of these and they breed regularly...look for fry in the near future.


Here is an awful pic of a great fish. We have two pairs of the nicest keyhole cichlids I have ever laid eyes on (many props to Pittbull on these).


Lastly we have our resident adult texas cichlid. He is looking for a new home and would love to go home with you today ...

Nice pictures man. We goit a big Texas at work too. they are awesome fish.

cool picts james and thanks for the props, how cool on the cutteri breeding, and dude i am so jealous that you got those julies to breed already i am hoping i have a pair, sweet..

BTW how are those red shoulders coming along man, dude i cant wait to get some they are too sweet, later..

Mike, the julies haven't bred for me yet that I know of (although they have been courting quite a bit). The way their tank is set up I may not even know they have spawned until I see fry!
The red-shoulders are doing GREAT! They are eating very well and putting on noticable size already. It won't be long for ya man!

wes wrote:

Nice pictures man. We goit a big Texas at work too. they are awesome fish.

Thanks Wes!
I really like the texas cichlids, just don't do much with them cause they get too big for most peoples tanks IMO.

james dude my fault i looked at the juli photo above and thought those small whatever pieces were fry i guess i looked to quick, crap, hehehe, oh well i am a tard dude, cool on the red shoulders cant wait..

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i looked at the juli photo above and thought those small whatever pieces were fry

Nah..that was the mysis I used to bribe them out for a photo op!

sweet it fooled me dude, hey BTW i am bringing up those plants tomorrow so i will not make it to the rep show in shelbyville, hey do you want to keep those jururapi dude or do you want to get rid of them..

I hadn't planned on getting rid of them but may if I can find a larger group. There are too many species that look almost identical, I want to get a big group from the same source so I can be reasonable certain that they are the same species and breed them.

If I let you take them are you just gonna keep them for a couple of weeks then give them back once they are nice and fat

hahaha yeah right, nah for real i really like these fish and i am keeping mine i was just wanting a few more to make a good school of them, i got my 3 from jamie at auburndale a while back i think he may have some more though.

I love that texas cichlid! What a beauty!

Techtress wrote:

I love that texas cichlid! What a beauty!

psst...he wants to go home with you

I bet he does, and eat every fish and tadpole in my 40 long.

Those blue acara really take me back! I use to keep and breed those back in the 70's and wondered if some of those neat fish from yester-year were still out there.

Another of my favorites was Aequidens portalegrensis. AKA the Port Cichlid back in the day. They were a hobby main stay years ago and though not a flashy fish they were just one nice fish. Hardy, relatively peaceful and easy to breed. The males developed this really cool lace pattern on their fins that was quite impressive. What I like best of all though was their thickness. Mine were only 6"- 7" in length but were at least 2" thick. A very solidly built fish yet compact in over all size.

Phil

Yeh, Phil I remember back in the day stuff to. The last place I saw a port cichlid there was a bunch of them swimming in a canal naer Biscayne Bay in south FL. Not exactly their home turf, but they appeared to be in great shape. It's amazing how many exotic species have colonized Fl waters.

i believe you can still get the ports here but not to many shops carry them i only know of one shop..

Ports are definately still in the hobby, but not always easy to find. Seems like all of the Aequidens kinda surge in the hobby from time to time...of course you guys who were keeping fish before I was born (1980) know that!!!