Re: checkerboards & misc

["Matthew Diller" <mdiller@mail.lawnet.fordham.edu>]

Dear list,

2 questions:

I picked up a few small checkerboard cichlids (filamentosus)  in  a local fish store.  They appear to be doing just fine.  Here is my question:  Linke & Staeck make them sound very delicate & challenging.  Are they really that difficult to keep ? Are they that hard to breed as well?  I do not use r/o water.  For the moment, they seem happy.  One has clearly begun to develop the lyre tail characteristic of males.  

  My LFS has lately been selling unmarked "dward cichlids" for $2 each.  Some are clearly nannacaras, but I have a bunch that I can't quite identify.  When I bought them they had five or six pronounced vertical bands.  These have now faded and they have a yellowish background (one is blueish) and black spots that appear like a broken up lateral band.  The  have black stripes above & below their eyes.   One has black ventral fins that make me think she is a female.  All are fairly small and nondescript.  

   The only guess the guy who sold them had was Ortmanni.  But really, he knows nothing about dwarf cichlids.  Any guesses?

 



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