LABIDOCHROMIS 'CHIDUNGA'?

[SGypsyMermaid]

i have a reverse trio of labs that i am tring to identify. the males look like l. caeruleus, except that they are blue where the caeruleus is yellow. the female and fry are blue-gray with silver flecks and their anal fins are sort of a peachy yellow color. i'm not certain that they are not hybrids, and my research so far points to the chidunga--help?

[chennes]

Do you have any pictures you could post?

[SGypsyMermaid]

no--i don't have a camera, nor fish photography skills--i know that that would make it easier. :oops:

[chennes]

A bit off topic, but I bought one of those cheapo disposables to do it. The pictures aren't very good, but you can at least see the fish. Which reminds me, I meant to post some of them...

Chris

[SGypsyMermaid]

maybe i'll try it--but the female and the fry are very shy--i'll probably have to lie motionless in front of that tank for hours to get a glimpse of her, let alone a decent shot!

[chennes]

Aw, come on! It'll be fun and you know it! :P

Chris

[SGypsyMermaid]

:mrgreen: i hope you're right about that, but i could get mighty hungry lying there for hours(the tank is underneath another one, near the floor) :roll:

[Beaker]

Maybe it's just me, but I find myself in front of the tank motionless for hrs for no reason. I just get sucked into the tank and I get almost hypnotized. :shock: I missed like a week of work once from that.

[SGypsyMermaid]

i can understand that. i can look at my fish for long periods. i was laid up for six weeks after surgery a couple of years ago, and at that time, i had 3 tanks in my bedroom. i was perfectly happy to lie there and watch my fish--i'm sure they kept me from going stir-crazy!

[ferdelance]

sgypsy
just saw an ad on the tiger direct website for a $40 digital camera. It is low resolution but would still take halfway decent pictures. for $200 now you can get a higher (2megapixel) resolution camera. they are a lot of fun to play around with as you don't waste any film. I am sure I am not the only one who would like to see some of your fish :!: :D

[SGypsyMermaid]

hmmmm...what's the exact web address--that might work.

[jnorris]

I borrowed my coworkers $900 digital camera. It is still impossible to adjust things completely right I will be posting the best 3 of 50 that I took.

[ferdelance]

here is the website:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Category/category_tlc.asp?Id=07
they have a wide selection of digital cameras- I would buy the 80 dollar 1.3 megapixel one if my wife didn't say I spend too much money on gadgets :oops:

[SGypsyMermaid]

duh-uh!!! they are melanochromis joanjohnsonae...i was had! not a labidochromis at all. to make matters worse, i'd forgotten that the joanjohnsonae had been mislabelled as l. exasperatus, and i put these little buggers in with some of my prize haps and they murdered my lithochromis rufus females. :( i kept trying to figure out why mild-mannered labs were raising so much hell. anyway, i guess i'll put them in with the mbunas, and maybe put the lanisticola in with the haps.

[StructureGuy]

The Melanochromis joanjohnsonae was previously called exasperatus. And the "experts" say that they are not totally sure if it should be classified as a Melanochromis or a Labidochromis because it shares some of the traits of each genus.

But I've kept these for over eight years now and I can definately say that their personality is more Melanochromis than Labidochromis.

Kevin

[SGypsyMermaid]

[quote:b6df3897cc]But I've kept these for over eight years now and I can definately say that their personality is more Melanochromis than Labidochromis.
[/quote:b6df3897cc]

i can certainly attest to that!--now i'm going to have to 'fess up to james that i let his 'girls' get murdered, and see if i can talk him out of some medium sized females. :(

[finz]

[quote:fde0485518="ferdelance"]here is the website:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Category/category_tlc.asp?Id=07
they have a wide selection of digital cameras- I would buy the 80 dollar 1.3 megapixel one if my wife didn't say I spend too much money on gadgets :oops:[/quote:fde0485518]

Hmm ... that's only about the cost of 10 rolls of film & prints.

[Mbuniac]

Gypsy,
Since you figured out they weren't L. caeruleus this is a moot point. But, I was gonna tell you that they come in blue, white and white w/black stripes(maybe other colors too). Not sure if you can get leather seat covers and auto trans. for them or not. It has been a long day!
Sam

[SGypsyMermaid]

[quote:097ed060a6="Mbuniac"]Gypsy,
Since you figured out they weren't L. caeruleus this is a moot point. But, I was gonna tell you that they come in blue, white and white w/black stripes(maybe other colors too). Not sure if you can get leather seat covers and auto trans. for them or not. It has been a long day!
Sam[/quote:097ed060a6]

:mrgreen: actually, sam, i never thought that they were l. caeruleus, but i did think that they were some kind of lab. i just described them as looking very much like l. caeruleus, but in blue. i thought that the blue caeruleus only occurred in F0 fish? part of the reason that i never considered the m. joanjohnsonae is because the females are so pretty that whenever i saw a tank of juveniles, i thought that that pearly gray was the male and female coloration...never knew that the boys turned blue. :oops:

[Mbuniac]

Okay Gypsy, go ahead and color me stupid! :roll: What is an "FO fish"?

[SGypsyMermaid]

[quote:ec50471ce9="Mbuniac"]Okay Gypsy, go ahead and color me stupid! :roll: What is an "FO fish"?[/quote:ec50471ce9]
never stupid, sam--just learning. :wink: an F0 fish is wild-caught...their kids are F1...grandkids...F2, etc.

[Mbuniac]

Ahh, now I get it! Boy am I ever a quick study, or what?
Thanks, Sam