Paretroplus maculatus

[seanwelsh1]

These guys are coming along great.Brilliant in a shoal of 12!









Group Shot




Last one made me laugh !

[sidguppy]

I looooove this fish ,pretty obvious, cause i have 11 myself
nice pix, Zigster, they look really good! how big are they?

hehe, your taste in fish is similar to mine.....Paretroplus maculatus: check. Paratilapia cf polleni/Small Spot: check. Ptychochromis oligacanthus Nosy Be: check......
now if you got the P grandidieri (East Coast Gold) and Paretroplus damii, we could double up

the last picture makes me think about Dory from Finding Nemo!

can tou make a pic wich shows the entire tank?

btw curiousity and all: tanksize, what do you feed them, waterparameters etc etc

keep it up! one of the Paratilapia will be appreciated too, cause from what I see it's in prime condition.
this species tends to loose the tiny spots and turns slate grey when it's unhappy. yours has the blue spots wich means it's doing fine.

[seanwelsh1]

Yeah no problem Sid,

I would love some damii but cant seem to get any ?

Yeah i will get a full tank shot after my next water change , the Paratilapia is in great condition i will get some pics up !

They are all housed in a 6ft x 2ft x 2ft tank , water temp is very high around 83,84 hign PH at about 7.8 - 8 very hard water not sure of levels but my area in england has very hard water.The only thing i add is some salt !

Thanks

[alanastar]

Hi, wonderfull fish.

I hope the two of you can exchange some fry for future breeding. I hope to keep some Mads one day so will be knocking on your door .
Keep up the good work.

[sidguppy]

uhuh I love this fish

last week I spotted some good sized F1's brought back (!) to my favorite store and if they're still there next week I'll get them to enlarge my group from 11 to 17

then I also ditch some sneak-ins from the big tank that I got; and likely the Paratilapia, because unfortunately those have a permanent divorce that I can't seem to fix.

ah well; Paratilapia's are bred by more people than Paretroplus, and I also prefer the looks of Paretroplus!
spotted another batch of eggs this week, but they were unfertilized.
fertilized eggs of Paretroplus are colored, unfertilized eggs are white. 2 of my females had a lesbian tryst or the male just skipped on being useful.....

I find it hard to see who's who!
OK the one with the eggs coming out is obviously the female, but when eggpapilla are retracted all fish look exactly the same.......

[westafrica]

Some pics of these wonderful fish :

[sidguppy]

beautiful pictures

as you might have guessed if you look into my Madagascar topic; this species is THE centerpiece of my tank.

the others (Paratilapia, Ptychochromis etc) are all "dithers" or "add on fish"

Paretroplus is one spectacular fish!