brucem Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tootie Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Great pics Bruce. That comp has got awesome colours. What's the name of the species 2nd from the top? That's a lovely looking specimen.Thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucem Posted January 13, 2013 Author Share Posted January 13, 2013 Thanks Shirley. That's a Xenotilapia spilopterus "Kipili" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shon982 Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Any fry of them bruce? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Beautiful pics and fish mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucem Posted January 13, 2013 Author Share Posted January 13, 2013 Not at the moment shon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sloory Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Love that pim in the last pic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooder Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Very nice fish and great photos...You know we want more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rowie Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 That last pic of the frontosa is a cracker mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shon982 Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Should add that the spilopterus is from mabilibili, Kipili spilos do not have any yellow in dorsal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucem Posted January 14, 2013 Author Share Posted January 14, 2013 Really shon? The colony I bought years ago were always referred to as kipili and they were from a well known breeder on this forum. On the list of fish on the german exporters web page they advertise X. Spilopterus kipili yellow - what bits are yellow? And good ol' google has lots of pictures that look a lot like mine. Have we been mislead?I agree they look a lot like mabilibil but I've always bought X spilopterus kipili. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucem Posted January 14, 2013 Author Share Posted January 14, 2013 .......did some more searching on google beyond the images, and the cichlid news acknowledges that X. spilopterus kipili (with a yellow dorsal) is collected north of Kipili. I've got no idea where mabilibilibut is but maybe we have a situation similar to Tropheus mpulungu and kasakalawe, where they are very similar, if not the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shon982 Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 This is from a discussion with a guy I know who knows the lake very wellBenoit Jonas At Kipili no X. spilopterus has yellow in the dorsal fin, it is an error to an exporter (germany), there is only Mabilibili / Lyamembe they have yellow dorsal fin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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shon982 Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 The discussion was had on a facebook group and Benoit provided pictures from his dive in the lake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucem Posted January 14, 2013 Author Share Posted January 14, 2013 So maybe the exporters name of "kipili yellow" is a product of poor location details from the past. Aquarist know of the yellow dorsal form as kipili and are not as familiar with another location, and the exporters are labeling their fish according to what the buyer knows them as.Just a thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shon982 Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 That's probably it, but it has since been fixed by importers so maybe the hobbyists need to change as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucem Posted January 14, 2013 Author Share Posted January 14, 2013 So is mabilibili the only location where yellow dorsal spilopterus are collected? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shon982 Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 It is the most commonly exported variantThe other variants that are exported are easily told apart from the amounts (or lack of) yellow and black in the dorsal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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