rahim101 Posted August 16, 2005 Report Share Posted August 16, 2005 Well I thought I'd write a quick updateon my tropheus duboisi colony. I had been keeping fish on and off now for about 15 years and for me it has usually been that I get board with the fish I am keeping very quickly and end up selling them off and replacing them with something that I percieve to be interesting at the time. I had tried tropheus back a couple of years ago, a colony of T. Kiriza, I have 11 of them in a 90 gallon tank and as they starting breeding, I started loosing one by one to bloat caused by agression. I was soon down to 6 fish in my colony with none of the same species to found to increase the colony and ended parting with the 6 that I had left having to re-stock my tank once again. Well, despite my bad luck with keeping Tropheus, I was given a chance to obtain a large colony of 20 duboisi fry that were about an inch big. I have had this colony now for about 8 months and they are now starting to reach breeding age. I have had a couple of bouts of bloat and have not lost a sigle fish and these guys seem to be very happy in thier 90 gallon home with 4 tropheus red rainbows. On my second go around with tropheus I decided to start with a large colony and now realize that these are most interesting fish I have ever kept. They occupy every inch of the tank and are always there to greet me when I go to feed them. They have an interesting pecking order and no one fish get picked on with the large numbers in the tank. So far, this is the longest I have ever kept a certain type of fish and I have not yet come close to loosing interest. They do have a few challenges in keeping, buy the rewards of keeping these fish has been awesome. I hope to have spawning soon and to view a whole new set of behavior. I would recommend these fish to a more novice fish keeper and to maintain a large group. That's all... Just an update!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tc51 Posted August 16, 2005 Report Share Posted August 16, 2005 (edited) Very interesting I have had tropheus on my mind for quite some time they are a very nice and interesting fish Thanks for the information Rahim, keep us updated I for one would be interested on how your colony progresses. Tom Edited August 16, 2005 by tc51 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rahim101 Posted August 16, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2005 Hi Tom, I will update as thing progress. Right now I have them in 90 gallon tank with the following: 20 Tropheus duboisi "maswa" 4 Tropheus Moorii Kambawimba "Red Rainbow" 7 cyrichromis Leptosoma "utinta" 1 Neolamprologus Buescheri Zaire Gold 1 Rhino pleco I am in the process of setting up another 90 gallon tank where I will remove the cyps (and put the colony of multis that I got from you) and pleco and I am trying to sell off the busecheri and the 4 red rainbows. I am finding that in a 90 gallon tank, there is NOT enough room for more then one species of tropheus as I seem to have 2 dominant males that are interupting breeding of the other species of tropheus. Also, the cyps that were recently added when I shut down a 55 gallon tank are no longer showing the breeding behavior that the were in their own tank. In a week or so, once I have the new tank set up, I will take pics and give an update. Anyone want to buy or trade for 4 a small breeding group of Tropheus "red rainbow" and a N. Buescheri male?????? I'll trade 4 of the Red Rainbows for 4 duboisi "Maswa" adults. The Red Rainbows have bred and held eggs!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rahim101 Posted September 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2005 Here are a few pics: There are: - 20 Tropheus duboisi "maswa - 4 Tropheus kambawimba "red rainbow" (which are up for sale ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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