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Mbuna sp. - what are you keeping?


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Josh N1 mate,

Thanks for the offer of help.

I think I may have met you at the Auctions a few weeks ago...

Cheers and look forward to catching up

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lol Jas the hobby itself is the beast and as it goes through it's cyclic stages

so does the future of the different species within the hobby in Oz

I have kept all of these species of cichlids during my years in the hobby that are no longer here

or are on the verge

Melanochromis labrosus was Haplochromis

Melaochromis vermivorus

Labidochromis pallidus

Labidochromis freibergi

Labidochromis fryeri (now caeruleus Nkhata Bay)

Petrotilapia tridentiger

Petrotilapia sp. retognathus

Metroclima sp. patricki

Protomelas taeniolatus sp. chinyankwazi

Mylochromis icola

Mylochromis mola

Mylochromis epicorialis

Limnotilapia dardenii

Neolamprologus toae

Lepidiolamprologus pleuromacalatus

Krobia itanyi

Guinacara geayi

Gymnogeophagus balzanii

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Mace they are Interruptus, named because of the interrupted stripes

they had a trade name of Checkerboard Johanni

while the true Johanni had a non interrupted stripe

the problem being they were common and both had Johanni in the name

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I have the following Mbuna; Labidochromis caeruleus, Labidochromis chisumulae, Melamoncromis kaskazini, Tropheops Chilumba Mphanga, Melanochromis cyaneorhabdos, Psuedotropheus socolofi & Petrotilapia chitmba.

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Hi yellow,

I am always hoping to get hold of elongatus "neon spot" but they seem to have disappeared :(.

Cheers

Rosco

i know 3 people keeping these in qld, i'm hoping to get some soon, but nothing 4 sale yet,

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Sutherland (Pet Care Direct)

I can't comment on the Cyaneus because I haven't seen them, but I can say that the above has a surprisingly good range of cichlids due to them buying fish from local breeders.

a book by norm halliwell

Norm has a book? Where did you get it.

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Hi yellow,

I am always hoping to get hold of elongatus "neon spot" but they seem to have disappeared :(.

Cheers

Rosco

i know 3 people keeping these in qld, i'm hoping to get some soon, but nothing 4 sale yet,

Nice it would be good to spread them around the country again.

cheers

rosco

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I'm still keeping the M joanjohnsonae (aka exasperatus) and Melanochromis parallelus, don't want to see either of these disappear from the hobby here. I'm also continuing to keep and refine my strains of electric yellows, maingano, hongi and saulosi. I'm also keeping some nice Lithobates, Dimi comps and Taiwan Reef, not mbuna I know, but also fish I don't want to see disappear .Cheers, Doug

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Wow I'm liking this topic already.

Only breeding the basics electric yellows, cobalt blues and some crabros.

Demasoni used to be low in supply and people were charging up to $20 each for 3cm fry.

I've only recently seen daktari and surprisingly at City Garden Aquarium in Greenacre. :O

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Ok here is what I have

Tropheops sp dark

Red face macs standard and albino

Petrotilapia chitimba bay

Mel esperatus

Lab mbanba

Lab perlmutt

Ps aurora

Tropheops manakola reef

Mel northern blue

Ps saulosi

Cheers

Craig

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