If only ... over in Holland they are breeding some amazing colour forms of Aulonocara and Ahli.

Here are a few pictures from the site at: www.malawi-firefish.de

If only we could get more like these in the UK

Stunning. They remind me of discus in a way.

Aulonocara Safforn:

Coral Red Firefish

Aulonocara Monet

Aulonocara Freibergi

stunning picture's

i wonder what the purists of the malawi community think, they usually frown on any malawi that isn't a natural true species.

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I think they are just amazing - not for the purists though.

WOW!!!!

Beautiful!

Love the Firefish ones! I have some that look like the Saffrons.

Imagine a tank full of the Firefish and Iceberg Ahli *drools*

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8' x 2' x 2' - Piece of Ocean.
6' x 2' x 18" - Wild Caught Zaire 'Moba' Frontosa
4' x 2' x 20" - Malawi
4' x 22" x 18" - Malawi + Victoria
4' x 18" x 18" - Breeding Cuban Cichlids.
Trigon 190 - Paratilapia Polleni
30" x 1' x 1' - Hospital Tank
2' x 1' x 1' - Tropical

and

7x - 1' and 2' cichlid fry tanks

stunning looking fish,
but surely line breeding and selective breeding is on a par with flourescent gravel, backgounds of roman ruins and air dispensers designed to look like alien ships with bright lights !
my tanks have all been set to look as natural as a tank can look (obviously keeping african lake fish in a tank in my front room in taunton is never going to be completely natural) and the enjoyment i get comes from seeing these stunning fish interact in what we assume is almost natural behaviour.
Although not a purist by any stretch ( i strip the fry and use asthetically pleasing set ups and feed flake and pellet food not naturally occuring algae and invertebraes) ican appreciate that when we interfere with these fish, what may be created may look great but do we have any real knowledge of behaviours and long term implications.
In an extreme example is this not almost a form of fish genocide !!

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