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It was me who initially had them,, I can't go into where they come from.

They bred very young, and when young they their ID showed to match as well as being what they were sold as.

I sold some handfuls till the parents grew bigger and colors and body shapes changed to not much to be in the way of plagio.

I also forgot another Mylochromis,,,,,,, Mylochromis anaphyrmus, which I also have.

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Ok good one, so now we have 3. Epichorialis, lateristriga mchuse, and anaphyrmus. I had melanotus about 5 years ago, the ones that just stay silver with a really thick melanin stripe, but they would be gone here now. The mola were here around 10 years ago but would also be gone. I would love to see ericotaenia one day as they look like one of the nicest IMO.

My anaphyrmus male is starting to colour up now, I will post some pics when he gets a bit bigger. Interested to know what the anaphymus looks like when mature, is it similar to the lateristriga? I really Like the shape of the mylos with their high dorsals.

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The anaphyrmus is not elongated like the others,,, it's shorter bodied and is a medium powder blue and aqua green.

A really nice fish after patience is practiced for them to mature.

The male seems to stay in dress majority of the time.

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Nice... My Mylo anaphyrmus is starting to really colour up now, they are quite assertive in the tank as well I have noticed, although probably not as assertive as the deeper water epichorialis, which are pretty nasty when they want to be. Those guys go through a very unusual transformation though I have noticed, in that they go through a stage where they are mainly yellow. I will post a pic of my Mylo in a few months when the colours set in.

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Yes the epi's do go through quite different color changes.

Once very mature, they are still classified as elongated I guess,,, but they become so much more chunky and deeper that they kind of lose the elongated look,,, and jeez do they woof the food down.

Once over 23cm or so,, the females need large amount food volumes to generate eggs for breeding.

I do find the mchuse are equally aggressive.

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I have been doing research on the web about mylos and there were incola & mola here once aswell. And curiously it looks like the plageotania are still available on the premier pet site. I saw those fish and never seen anything like them, I wonder what they really are.

Here are some shots of the mylochromis anaphyrmus colony with the male just starting to colour up, since I think the females might be approaching breeding age.

I have partitioned the tank with eggs crate to see how the male colours up without more dominant tank mates around.

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with flash

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WOW Rob he lights up with the flash

Had Incola 30yrs ago and the male built a raised breeding nest

at one end of the 5' x 18" x 18" they were in approx. 30cm across

Buccal is this what the Anaphyrmus look like

http://aquahaus-gaus.de/Mylochromis-anaphyrmus

seems there were a few available in WA and QLD in 2013 from my web search

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Yes, the ones I breed are exactly like that link.

Most of the diagonal line mylo's all look extremely similar to each other until stages of maturing.

As the differences become apparent,,, the Anaphyrmus is a prominent green like a Lethrinops lethrinus but the Anaphyrmus is more of a aqua green,,,, and also a definete compaction from nose to tail making the fish deeper top to bottom.

I keep a few Mylochromis types and the Anaphyrmus seems to be a smaller growing specie.

The Epichorialus is a big beast of a specie and gets large.

The Mchuse is very similar to Lateristriga varients, but the Mchuse's difference is its total size is bigger as a specie.(Mchuse and Lateristriga are extremely hard to tell apart though with differing characteristic from one individual to another until finished sizes are apparent).

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Chris, the Incola would have been an awesome fish at that size. The anaphyrmus male I have I think is going through a colour transformation at the moment. At onepoint, the head seems mainly blue at other times (like pictured in my latest shot, he appears yellowish but I think that may be due to the camera light. Evry time I try to take a picture of him when he loses his line he retreats to the back of the tanks but I managed to capture this one below.

Buccal, thanks for you insights into the mylos, they are a fascinating species and I sent you a pm earlier.

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Yeah,,, the red dots on the finnage in the link may be the actual fish or maybe just showing that way as sometimes pics just do.

The dots in mine are more of a orangey red color rather than just red.

I'd say within the true species there would be certain very tiny variances,,,, sometimes captive breeds slowly lose some color over time.

Sometimes food types that differs in carotene and astaxanthins that is found also in the natural food diets can alter physical coloration between yellows, oranges and reds.

The pigments blue and green are heavily swayed by spiralina intake also.

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I like to say that i have Mylochromis Incola .                                                                                                                                                                    

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