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I breed, sell and ship cichlid fishes along with aquarium supplies and fish foods that go with them.
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07/16/2024
Haha, this is what I got when I asked Meta AI to make a chart of the types of cichlids.
06/16/2024
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06/12/2024
06/09/2024
05/28/2024
Got my first spawn from this young group of Placidochromis phenochilus “Mdoka Reef”. Good things to come.
05/24/2024
Loads of beautiful 5” OB peacocks in. Most are heavily blotched. A bunch have striking yellow color. A local pet store is wanting them all but am offering them here first.
05/23/2024
I’ve found it fascinating over the last year, when these N. buescheri “Kachese” began spawning, I never had any idea where the eggs were. Buescheri females do not fan or hang out by their eggs. So if I had no idea where the eggs were, perhaps predators in the lake never know where their eggs are either. Just happened tonight to shine a light in this pleco tube and found approximately 45-50 white eggs that seem to have just been laid in the last 24 hours. White, in Tanganyikan cichlids, often does not mean the eggs are infertile. Of the three pairs of buescheri “Kachese” I’ve spawned to date, this one lays the most eggs and more often than the other two did.
04/25/2024
04/12/2024
It may be spring but it’s still snowing at my house!
03/21/2024
Got a first spawn from one of my female Xenotilapia sp. “Papilio Sunflower” Kantalamba yesterday. This Xeno species pairs off when ready to spawn and stays paired. Pairs like this usually don’t tolerate others of their species near them once paired. But I wanted to see if keeping a larger group together allowed a pair to develop without the mayhem once it had, spreading out the aggression. It worked. Will move the pair after the incubation is complete. Easy to tell the pair from the others because of the fingerprint-like black markings on their dorsal fins.
03/19/2024
Breeding pair of Neolamprologus similis with fry.
03/16/2024
I think I finally have enough shipping boxes for the next few shipments. Thanks to Animal Ark and The Waterfront for hooking me up!
03/16/2024
Available at the Waterfront pet store today in Murray, Utah.
03/15/2024
Lamprologus signatus pair. Just removed the most recent batch of one-month-old fry. If I didn’t do so about a month after each spawn, the parents would kill or eat the older fry to make way for the new fry. The female is just about ready to spawn again as evidenced by her full belly.
03/13/2024
Current list of species available during March.
03/09/2024
With my backyard beginning to thaw, Jodi and I decided to improve the pond for the outside fish.
03/06/2024
Breeding pairs of adult Rock Kribensis available. $15 per pair.
03/05/2024
Altolamprologus compressiceps “Talama” Mandarin F1 beauties.
02/21/2024
Haha, my wife and I happened to be reading an Isaiah chapter tonight in the Old Testament and I must say, this verse rubbed me wrong (in a playful way):
“Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.” -Isaiah 50:2
Yes. Rubbed me wrong, haha.
02/12/2024
I was introduced to Steatocranus casuarius (Buffalohead cichlids) in 1980. My cousin, who was ten years older than me, took me to a few fish guys' homes to introduce me and maybe pick up some fish. I was 15. At one home, I was shown fry from a pair of Buffaloheads he had. I was amazed and had wanted some ever since. Got my first ones finally back in 2017 and still love them. Perhaps it was because it was one of the first cichlids I learned about and they seemed exotic. Two of my favorite pictures of Buffaloheads that I've taken.
02/06/2024
If anyone has any Black Calvus from Lupota 1" fry or bigger, I'd be interested for a shipment I'm doing next week. Let me know.
01/27/2024
Geophagus pyrocephalus (formerly sp. Red Head Tapajos) right after being let out into their quarantine tank.
01/17/2024
Of COURSE when I first saw this leaf that had fallen off the plant above I thought it was a baby fish that had jumped its tank. But the fish are downstairs.
01/14/2024
Wild A. compressiceps pair. Second spawn went off without a hitch. Alternate male moved out.
01/10/2024
One part of my fishroom. Describe something you see.
01/08/2024
Protomelas sp. “Johnstoni Solo” females. Even the females are striking.
12/30/2023
6-7” Mpimbwe Frontosa male for sale. $40.
12/26/2023
Petco's 50% off sale started today and will go to February 3rd if anyone is looking for a tank!
12/26/2023
Hard to capture good pictures of these young male Cyprichromis sp. "Brilliant Jumbo" Mobas. Just beginning to get their good colors at 2.5".
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Placidochromis phenochilus “Mdoka Reef”
Got my first spawn from this young group of Placidochromis phenochilus “Mdoka Reef”. Good things to come.
OB Peacocks
Loads of beautiful 5” OB peacocks in. Most are heavily blotched. A bunch have striking yellow color. A local pet store is wanting them all but am offering them here first.
N. buescheri “Kachese”
I’ve found it fascinating over the last year, when these N. buescheri “Kachese” began spawning, I never had any idea where the eggs were. Buescheri females do not fan or hang out by their eggs. So if I had no idea where the eggs were, perhaps predators in the lake never know where their eggs are either. Just happened tonight to shine a light in this pleco tube and found approximately 45-50 white eggs that seem to have just been laid in the last 24 hours. White, in Tanganyikan cichlids, often does not mean the eggs are infertile. Of the three pairs of buescheri “Kachese” I’ve spawned to date, this one lays the most eggs and more often than the other two did.
Most recent spawn from my Neolamprologus gracilis. Mom and dad will finish off the large brine shrimp when I walk away. Fry are eating the bbs.
24hrs after being added to their quarantine tank. Haplotaxodon microlepis. Those eyes! Will be keeping these for breeding.
Red Marble/Calico Bristlenose plecos
Lemon OB Peacock male. He’s 5”. $30.
The walls down the stairs outside my fishroom look like this after I whack out a 10g tanks Matten filter after having pleco grow outs in the tank for a year.
A bunch of large OB Peacocks just in. $25-$28.
papilio sunflower
Got a first spawn from one of my female Xenotilapia sp. “Papilio Sunflower” Kantalamba yesterday. This Xeno species pairs off when ready to spawn and stays paired. Pairs like this usually don’t tolerate others of their species near them once paired. But I wanted to see if keeping a larger group together allowed a pair to develop without the mayhem once it had, spreading out the aggression. It worked. Will move the pair after the incubation is complete. Easy to tell the pair from the others because of the fingerprint-like black markings on their dorsal fins.
Similis
Breeding pair of Neolamprologus similis with fry.
Parrot
Available at the Waterfront pet store today in Murray, Utah.
Lamprologus signatus pair. Just removed the most recent batch of one-month-old fry. If I didn’t do so about a month after each spawn, the parents would kill or eat the older fry to make way for the new fry. The female is just about ready to spawn again as evidenced by her full belly.
Geophagus pyrocephalus
Geophagus pyrocephalus (formerly sp. Red Head Tapajos) right after being let out into their quarantine tank.
A. compressiceps “Talama” Mandarin pair.
Wild A. compressiceps pair. Second spawn went off without a hitch. Alternate male moved out.
Two days out of the cave for these Neolamprologus caudopunctatus fry. The black sand makes the parents a bit darker overall than they would be over normal, light-colored sand.
Micro
Man! This Cyprichromis microlepidotus “Kiriza” male is spectacular even when he’s not really trying very hard!
Heros liberifer
Wild Heros liberifer parents. These are the only species in the Heros genus to have mouthbrooding behavior, albeit delayed mouthbrooding. First time I’ve gotten them to this stage. Parents have always been too skittish to not eat the eggs or small fry.
Altolamprologus
Three of these fish are Altolamprologus compressiceps “Kigoma”. The remainder were an unintentional crossing between (likely) a Black Calvus and a Red Fin Compressiceps like these Kigoma. Very cool, in spite of the hybridization. Available.
Cyps
Cyprichromis microlepidotus “Kiriza”. At least two males spawning with two females in this group of about 25 fish. Caught one egg being released. Sperm is released near the ends of the males’ pelvic fins where females continually grab at it to fertilize the eggs already in their mouths. Sperm is often visible.
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