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| Posted | altolamporologus compressiceps |
| 31-05-2007 21:56 by CichlidRouse |
me and my mate have just bought a pair of the above fish
does anyone on here have any info on keeping/breeding these fish i know they are very slow growing and dont like temp changes thanks mark |
| 31-05-2007 22:13 by NikkiC |
I have three. Slow growing like you said and like high pH but I'm sure you know that. Had mine about a year now and do seem to have a pair but no breeding as yet. I read the dominent male goes darker in colour and one of mine has changed colour slightly. Sorry not much help. Hope you get on OK with yours. |
| 31-05-2007 22:18 by Elmo |
look at cjchlid forum and put in compressiceps, loads of info, or just google it. |
| 31-05-2007 22:19 by Elmo |
i meant cichlid sorry |
| 01-06-2007 02:21 by Caz |
If you want to get them to breed you have to provide somewhere for the female to hide in, its entrance has to be big enough for her to enter but not the male - he will stay outside and guard it and fertilise the eggs by 'wafting his stuff' through the entrance.
The males not only go darker but usually have much longer ventral fins. We feed ours on a mixed diet of basic flake, spirulina flake, freshly hatched brine shrimp (they go crazy for them), frozen daphnia, frozen mysis shrimp, chopped prawns, chopped garden worms and red crumb from www.ta-aquaculture.co.uk |
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