Have you ever stopped to think about where the fish that populate your aquarium has come from? Aquarium fish come from almost every corner of the globe. Every fish with its own habitat. These habitats vary from lakes to rivers and streams and even sometimes down to small puddles. It is these habitats that are […]
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Yssichromis argens photos Common name: Location and Lake collected from: Lake Victoria Approximate size: 4.5 – 5 inches Food: I have seen them eat flake food without hesitation. This species needs to eat a high protein food 3 or 4 times a day as a minimum. Their natural diet consists of small invertebrates. pH: 7.5
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Psuedotropheus socolofi Description: This is a blue fish with a black strip in the dorsal and anal fins. Common Name: Also called Psuedotropheus pindani Location collected from: Found between Tumbi Point and Cobue. Approximate Size: Just over 3 inches for wild socolofi, but I have seen them as large as 6 inches in an aquarium.
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Haplochromis sp. Palisa Black Slick Common name: This species is also listed under the name Haplochromis sp. Pallisa. Location and Lake collected from: Lake Nawampasa Approximate size: About 4 inches. Food: Mine have eaten flake, daphnia, and frozen brine shrimp without problems. The daphnia and brine shrimp have been their favorite foods that I have tried
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Haplochromis sp. Salmon Common name: Hippo Point Salmon or Salmon Hippo Point Location and Lake Collected From: Hippo Point, Lake Victoria Approximate size: 5 – 6 inches Food: Will eat flake, daphnia, brine shrimp, and should accept most foods without hesitation. pH: 7.6 – 8.5 Temperature: 86 – 82 degrees F Breeding behavior: Mouthbrooder.
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Haplochromis sp. Blue Obliquidens Common names: Location and Lake collected from: Makobe Island in the South-western Speke Gulf, Lake Victoria. Approximate size: 3 – 3.5 inches. Food: Will eat just about any foods from flake, or pellet, to spirulina. In the wild, this species is an opportunistic feeder and has been observed scraping algae off
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Psuedotropheus flavus photos The fish pictured below is a young male.
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Neolamprologus tretocephalus Neolamprologus tretocephalus pictured. Common Name: Location collected from: Wide distribution in the lake. Approximate Size: 5 – 5.5 inches Food: Will eat flake, brine shrimp, daphnia, mosquito larvae and pellet food without hesitation. Water Conditions: Likes a pH between 7.8 and 9+ with temperatures between 74 and 78 degrees. Breeding Behavior: Egglayer. Once
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Feeding Live Foods.We do not use live foods to feed any of our fish – even our marines and seahorses. But, why not? Here are four of the reasons: Economics Firstly, economics: frozen foods are cheaper, without sacrificing nutrition. How much cheaper? Let’s take brine shrimp as an example. When we last sold brine shrimp,
Julidochromis transcriptus Julidochromis transcriptus pictured. Common Names: Location names are used in the place of common names. Locations collected from: Pemba (Bemba), Kapampa in Congo, Kaku (Gombe), and Katoto. Approximate Size: 2.5 – 3.5 inches. Food: Not picky. Mine eat flake, brine shrimp, daphnia, and mosquito larvae. They didn’t care for pellet food too much.
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