New fish today

We got 6 Pseudotropheus Socolofi & 5 Fuelleborni females.

Socolofi...


Fuelleborni...

They are lovely Munchycarrot. You get these from a specific breeder dont you, not just the lfs?

Yes, all of our fish are from 2 people. One is a serious breeder, the other (where we got these from) just sells on the fry her fish have. They are £8/£9 each in the lfs, she charged us £20 for 11 !!

Wow, that's a difference in price isn't it?

Yes, we have 40 fish in there so LFS would charge £400 ish, for all of them we paid around £120 in total

Well you're very lucky to have a local breeder, M.C. 'coz at least you know you're getting good, healthy stock instead of the dubious, probably inbred stock that most LFS seem to import these days...

He's a great guy... all he asks is that what people pay for fish covers the cost of running & feeding the tanks. He has kept & bred fish for 35yrs & is the chairman of the north west cichlid group.
He knows what stock we have so will tell us what is & isn't a good idea

It must be good to have those contacts Mary, especially when you are into a 'speciality' fish. They are lovely though, beautiful fish.

I love the fish you get MC. I hadnt even heard of cichlids when I first came on this forum, but now I think they are really lovely fish, and wish I could keep some. I think I'll wait a while for that though until I have a bit of experience.

Fishfan wrote:

It must be good to have those contacts Mary, especially when you are into a 'speciality' fish. They are lovely though, beautiful fish.

I wish! It's Munchycarrot that has the good contacts.

Just got a full tank shot, we tap on the lid at feeding time so they get used to the noise, like pavlovs' theory, lol. Anyway, it works at getting them all out!

Oh wow MC, that is a beautiful set up, just with the rocks and fish, it looks really impressive. Well done (she said through gritted teeth )

Diana wrote:

Well done (she said through gritted teeth )

All the fish are sulking now because I tapped the lid & didn't feed them

That's just cruel!

They'll get their own back next time you want to take a decent photo of them :lol:

That'll be in a min then...they aren't too keen on the new blue lights yet, they all scurry off to bed when we turn the main tank light off. Will go & take a pic now, probably without fish, lol

Very nice, M.C. Now train them to jump through a hoop and I'll be really impressed...