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Re: Comments on this post...
Seems to me that most of the smaller animals, whatever the environment,
can't get enough nourishment from vegetation. Now all I have to do is wait
for the flames!
Colin
>From: "Bolton Museum, Art Gallery & Aquarium" <bolnathist@gn.apc.org>
>Reply-To: apisto@majordomo.pobox.com
>To: apisto@majordomo.pobox.com
>Subject: Re: Comments on this post...
>Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 11:40:51 +0100
>
>
> > Ive never seen a vegetarian dwarf cichlid. Certainly none of mine are
>and
> > they get ample opportunity to eat zuccini and algae wafers that the
> > bristlenose get fed.
>I have. I once picked out an oddball from a load of wild caught
>Pelvicachromis pulcher types that spent all its time rasping algae
>from the sides of the tank. This may not have been obligate
>behaviour, it did go into a tank with heavy algal growth from
>sunight. I still don't know what it was, it looked like a very poorly
>coloured Pelvic. with a truncate caudal. It had broader lips than
>normal but not to the degree seen in some rifts (Petrotilapia etc.).
>I don't think the other fish in the tank(Chromidotilapia and a pair of
>the P. 'pulcher' from the same shipment) knew what to make of it.
>Unfortunately it got whacked a few months later by the Chromido's
>when they bred, but it never grew beyond a couple of inches in that
>time.
>Pete Liptrot
>Bolton Museum Aquarium
>Le Mans Crescent, Bolton BL1 1SE
>01204 332200
>
>
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