deadman-1
12-27-2008, 10:44 PM
i have only had this species abut 1.5 months. there are currently in the process of formal description. they are housed in a 100 gal with pundi blue bar and kyoga flame back, one thing i noticed about them was for the past two weeks this pair was togather, she was right behind him or right next to him every where he went. after the spawn today they whent thier seperate ways, i thought that was cool. here are some pics and vids of the spawn.
i had some questions about them before i got them and this is what i was told
from greg steves.
Paul Loiselle is examining them right now as he thinks they are from a family he is familiar with in africa. I was the first one to work with these fish and have had them ever since. They have bred true through half a dozen generation. This usually point to stable genetics within a species. At first I thought they were a Thoracochromis species dues to body shape and ocelli placement but Dr. Lamboj does not believe this to be the case. He has a colony in Austria (from our fish) and has done some taxonomic work with them.
Dr. Loiselle looked hard at them when he was here on Tuesday and said he had some material at the Smithsonian from A Greenwood collection that he was going to try and match them to. I can't remember exactly where he said he thought they might be from but I'll ask on our next correspondence. All in all they are a cichlid mystery for sure and there are some big ichthyologists working on it.
http://www.cichlidforums.com/postimages/2008-12-27/241542-001.jpg
http://www.cichlidforums.com/postimages/2008-12-27/241542-002.jpg
http://www.cichlidforums.com/postimages/2008-12-27/241542-003.jpg (http://s223.photobucket.com/albums/dd236/fulu-1/?action=view¤t=flavenentisspawn049.flv)
http://www.cichlidforums.com/postimages/2008-12-27/241542-004.jpg (http://s223.photobucket.com/albums/dd236/fulu-1/?action=view¤t=flavenentisspawn048.flv)
http://www.hillcountrycichlidclub.com/articles/Haplochromis%20sp.%20flavenentis.pdf
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i had some questions about them before i got them and this is what i was told
from greg steves.
Paul Loiselle is examining them right now as he thinks they are from a family he is familiar with in africa. I was the first one to work with these fish and have had them ever since. They have bred true through half a dozen generation. This usually point to stable genetics within a species. At first I thought they were a Thoracochromis species dues to body shape and ocelli placement but Dr. Lamboj does not believe this to be the case. He has a colony in Austria (from our fish) and has done some taxonomic work with them.
Dr. Loiselle looked hard at them when he was here on Tuesday and said he had some material at the Smithsonian from A Greenwood collection that he was going to try and match them to. I can't remember exactly where he said he thought they might be from but I'll ask on our next correspondence. All in all they are a cichlid mystery for sure and there are some big ichthyologists working on it.
http://www.cichlidforums.com/postimages/2008-12-27/241542-001.jpg
http://www.cichlidforums.com/postimages/2008-12-27/241542-002.jpg
http://www.cichlidforums.com/postimages/2008-12-27/241542-003.jpg (http://s223.photobucket.com/albums/dd236/fulu-1/?action=view¤t=flavenentisspawn049.flv)
http://www.cichlidforums.com/postimages/2008-12-27/241542-004.jpg (http://s223.photobucket.com/albums/dd236/fulu-1/?action=view¤t=flavenentisspawn048.flv)
http://www.hillcountrycichlidclub.com/articles/Haplochromis%20sp.%20flavenentis.pdf
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