A few random pictures from the past week or so

[anewbie]

Beautiful. What does ec 21 stand for?

conductivity. Nearly all tds pens are really just ec pens - so this is sort of like a tds of 10 1/2. Very soft water.

 

[anewbie]

A couple of caves from my aquarium:

and a bit of light:


and

 

[anewbie]

brooding IB:

 

[fishorama]

I don't remember your cichlid species, but congrats on the spawn!

 

[anewbie]

 

[gwand]

That’s one ugly creature! A face only a mother could love.

 

[gwand]

What is the evolutionary advantage of having the hump on the head? Any ideas?

 

[anewbie]

What is the evolutionary advantage of having the hump on the head? Any ideas?

Nope but they sure do head butt a lot.

 

[anewbie]

My latest addition:

 

[anewbie]

 

[GaryE]

The head hump is probably a peacock's tail type, hey look at me thing. I used to breed red humps, and the size of the hump showed rank with the 3 males I had. It's a limited sample, but was interesting.

 

[anewbie]

Well I can now say with first hand experience that breeding chocolate cichild are quite passive and gentle when brooding.

 

[anewbie]

 

[anewbie]

One above taken a couple of months ago the two below taken today.

 

[emeraldking]

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One above taken a couple of months ago the two below taken today.


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I really love the iridescent parts on the body of these fish....