cerianthus

Glad to meet someone who appreciate the beauty of C. furcifers. I dont know what it is but my hearts always had extra special pull for this fish.
Unfortunately, been out of all fish keeping for few yrs until last summer but heart never left fish.
Couple of seahorses my children caught started one tank (2-1/2G), now have 4 tanks running w/ other fish caught from ocean, puffers, dotty algae blenny. Waiting for weather to break so I can release them back except seahorses. Tempting rasing babys. have not done in over 10 yrs.
By coming summer hope to set up 72Bow which has been sitting collecting dust in basement with dried purple coralline algae still on the back glass.

As far as Ps. demasoni, not particularly more aggressive than other mbunas. Just give them tons of rocks until maturity. You can make your selections then or let them pair off.

Had 180 G where about 500-600lbs of rocks were build in the center of the tank thus can be viewed from all four sides. This way had mbunas living in and out of rocks and Utakas swimming around the montain of rocks. Had numerouos breeding going on but let them take their chances since trying to catch one or few would meant not just more work but more stress for majority of fish. Need of one or few did not outweigh the needs of many, lol.

Keep us posted with the progress.
PS: Nova Scotia, one day very soon i hope to visit and Alaska.. Went up as fas as Bar Harbor where my baby sister was doing Grad Study on Marine Eco. Pretty Chilly in Bar Harbor when camping in late August, ill prepared camping trip when young. Probably colder in NS. lol!

FishnFry

I've always have my eyes on those featherfins and I'm sure one of these days, I'll get my hands on them. Once you like fish, it's pretty hard to stay away from them lol.. I always admire those salties but way too much for my liking and high maintenance I find. Glad to know that demasonis are not far worse than the other mbunas given the proper set-up. And also I might just get lucky and get a well-behaved demasoni (dream on). I'm dying to get my tank set-up so I could get some.

Bar Harbor (Maine, right?) is not too far from here so I think it is pretty close to the same temperature wise hmm maybe just a little colder. .

I'll keep you posted as soon as my plan starts rolling.

cerianthus

Wii be looking out for your progress.
btw, salties are not as difficult as some may think. IMO, it is easier to maintain than F/W. It just cost bit more to start and maintained. Poke around for info.

FishnFry

Will do.

Thanks.

FishnFry

cerianthus: Have you tried C. foai? I'm just wondering what is the easier species to start with.

BTW, I'm getting some demasonis later this week.

cerianthus

Although familiar with name, dont think I ever kept C. foai. I would not know for sure which is easier but C. foai being more recent fish, C. foai might be more challenging and rewarding, especially F1s with specific locality.
Even though not a cichlid, How about Lamprichthys tanganicanus? Awesome fish!
Good Luck with P. demasoni!

BTW, DO you know where to obtain wild specimen of C. foai? I dont see it as avail as before.

FishnFry

The C foais are also hard to come by. I found somebody selling some WC but I think he's in Toronto (Canada). Here's the link:
http://www.pricenetwork.ca/deal/Toro...t_-197141.html

I haven't heard of the Tang killie but will check it out. I'm sure it's also a hard-to-come by fish.

Thanks.

cerianthus

Try google for Atlantis Tropical in Upstate NY, Their list seemed to gotten shorter than before but you maybe able to find rare WC and tank raised.

FishnFry

OK. Will check it out.

Thanks.