Anyone keep freshwater fish too?

TinaFoster · Jul 10, 2011

I'm so sick of looking at cichlids! Most of them I'll give away to club members, so if anyone is keeping Africans come see me! I even have a couple of new worlds. Pretty much the only ones of the cichlids I wouldn't let go for free to a responsible owner are the frontosas, so here's the list:
OB Firefish peacocks-around 20
the Victorians--
Christmas fulus-20+ PENDING
Pundamilia Hippo Point Blue Bars-5 PENDING
zebra obliquidens-2 PENDING
the Madagascars
Ptychochromis East Coast Gold-16 to 18 PENDING
New Worlds--
pair of chocolates that has laid eggs--$20 OBO

And the fronts are F1 Zaire Blue I have 6 of those the largest is 7-8" and they're all the same age. $500 comes with 3 synodontis cats and a pleco.

Non-cichlids: There's also a black ghost knife and a teacup stingray if anyone's interested. Had the stingray just over a year and the knife I got when he was maybe 3" had him over 2 years and he's about a foot long. Knife $30 Stingray $70.

Twaldo · Jul 10, 2011

Haha, I'm soo sick of them too !!! Im tired of the aggressiveness, im gonna try to close my freshwater tank as well.

TinaFoster · Jul 11, 2011

I'm tired of the dang breeding! And I only had them because I didn't think I could do salt, which is what I really wanted--well I had 35 big tanks full of them. It was overkill!

TinaFoster · Jul 16, 2011

My frontosas are really BLUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE tonight and the camera's still in the shop. I WISH I could take a good pic with my phone but it never turns out that way, still I want to share. These should have been salt--I have no idea how they got to be cichlids but they really are pretty enough for any reef. The F1 Zaire Blue Moba

There are 6 of these beauties, and when they're having a super blue day there's no way to just walk away from them. If ONLY they could go in the marine tanks!!

NeedBiggerTank · Jul 16, 2011

All East African cichlids were marine fish not too long ago (in the grand scheme of things) - before the lakes were cut off from the sea (Victoria, Malawai, Tanganyka). That is why so many of them resemble their marine cousins in shape and coloration and why they require higher alk and salts to thrive.

They are nice fish! :)

TinaFoster · Jul 16, 2011

Well that would explain it! And Tanganyika having the highest salt content it makes sense they'd be the mariniest looking fish(although Malawi does have quite a lot of colorful mbuna. The yellow lab was my fave before I realized I could try salt). Cool info Jennie! They never discussed that in the freshwater club!