Crimson Tide

[Quint]

Can someone post or give links to decent pictures of a Crimson Tide male. I see pictures all over the net and they don't look like the Crimson Tides I have seen in person.

[StructureGuy]

The Pundamilia sp. "crimson tide" has an orange snout and underbelly. It is basically kind of brownish with faint vertical stripes.

If you go to this site and click on photos then victorians and scroll to the bottom you will see what I consider to be a true crimson tide although not quite full grown.

http://www.fishthoughts.net/

Don't confuse the crimson tide with Paralabidochromis sp "half crimson" which is a variety of rock kribensis.

Finz also has a picture of an unusually good specimen from the 2004 ACA bowl show.
http://img44.photobucket.com/albums/v136/JamesKuhn/ACA%202004/crimson-reef.jpg

Kevin

[riftlake73]

I took these photos the other day.
This fish is from the same blood line as the ACA grand champion a few years back.

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h282/riftlake73/DSC01396.jpg

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h282/riftlake73/DSC01406.jpg

Structure guy, if you want to use these photos in the July presentation, you may. I can't wait to see your presentation.

[tires]

here are my breeding group of crimsons

http://www.cichlidforums.com/postimages/2007-05-12/190956-001.jpg
http://www.cichlidforums.com/postimages/2007-05-12/190956-002.jpg
http://www.cichlidforums.com/postimages/2007-05-12/190956-003.jpg
http://www.cichlidforums.com/postimages/2007-05-12/190956-004.jpg

[tires]

:wink:

[Quint]

Thanks all,

Since I posted that thread I picked up the Crimson Tide that I had been looking at. Once I got him home I stuck him in a tank full of young Makobe Island. Within two weeks he started coloring up and dominating the tank so I was forced to move him out and put him in another tank with yellow labs and C. tilapia Jalo
Reef...Where everyone gets along nicely.

I now want to get a herd of females and maybe one or two more males so I can develop a breeding colony.

He looks just like the pictures everyone has sent me. It's funny though, every time I look into the tank he seems to be yawning and looks exactly like that first picture posted by riftlake 73.

Thanks again,