Let´s build a Nest!

[Creepy85]

Here a couple of Pics from my O. ventralis when he building a Nest!













Regards, Simon

[stausholm]

he is very fine. what location is he from ?

allan

[Michael Andersen]

Very nice indeed! - is it the Longola ?? it must be from Congo..

Regards from Michael

[Creepy85]

No, it´s a Mtoto WC...i have a view Males...everyone looks diffrent.

Longola have more yellow on his flank!

[tanganyikanhunt]

Zongwe!

[Creepy85]

No...not really...when you read my last post...i buy this fish as a Mtoto Wild Collected from a "friend" in germany and he buy the Fish at Maltavi(germany) as Wild Collected from Mtoto...

And i can tell...every man looks other than the next one..i got 4 Males...from black with white flank to brown black and white ...

Its the same Fish on the right side on the Mtoto Pics from Angsthase viewtopic.php?f=23&t=4713&p=28355#p28355

[tuna]

My Dewindti took all the sand in the tank and put it in the corner and built his nest. I put more sand in the empty end and took all of that also.

[tanganyikanhunt]

Creepy85,

Unless your fish seller's are better at determination than Genevelle/Buscher here is how they call the fish you picture:

http://www.tanganyika-cichlids.com/o_ve ... _fin_2.htm

Looks like Zongwe to me. A major fish distributor here misindentifies them also. See the yellow in your fish's tail and dorsal? Zongwe. M'toto has no yellow.

[Creepy85]

Hi there,

i asked buescher and s. loose himself about the congo ventralis.

Buescher say, the black and white variant is so virtouse and colourfull, mtotos and moba are the same fishes, and mtotos has yellow in the flanks, my other male:



http://www.kensafricancichlid.com/viewt ... f=10&t=763 <---pics from fresh imported mtoto/moba ventralis...and no yellow? aha!

[Creepy85]

Once again...i have a "old" video from this fishes.

[Matthijs]

Very, very nice!!!

[I_Xeno]

Wow, the nest of the A.dewindti

[Jesper]

Very nice fish But it is not the one from M´toto but the one from Zongwe as mentioned previously

[Creepy85]

Please use a Translator, i did´t find many words, to write this in Englisch.

Ich habe es schonmal gesagt, ich habe die Fische als Wildfang über einen Bekannten erworben, der hat die Fische damals bei Maltavi(Zierfischzucht und Importeur) gekauft. Der Sven Danhieux hat mir nochmal zuversichert das es Wildfänge sind.


Ich habe mit Siegfried Loose(German Featherfin expert (fadenmaulbrüter.de)) darüber gesprochen, der konnte mir keine genaue Auskunft geben, da er noch nicht im Kongo getaucht ist. Ich habe Büscher gefragt(der mit der Farbformseite über die Kongoventralis...), der sagte, das die Fische variabel gefärbt sind, das dort Fische vorkommen, die fast weiss sind und fasst schwarz....verhält sich ähnlich wie bei der Orange Capmorphe bei Kalambo bis Bismarckpoint(Kasanga) in Tanzania. Dort treten fast blaue Tiere auf und welche mit Oranger Kappe, und manche nur mit schwarzen Kopfband.

[Lisachromis]

Literal translation from babelfish:

I said it already times, I acquired the fish as game catch over an acquaintance, bought to that the fish at that time with Maltavi (Zierfischzucht and importer). The Sven Danhieux has me that it game catches is again zuversichert. I have with Siegfried Loose (German Featherfin expert (fadenmaulbrüter.de)) spoken about which could not give me exact information, since he did not dip yet in the Congo. I asked Bü (with the color form side over the Kongoventralis…), which said, the fish are variable colored which, which fish occur there, those are nearly white and seizes black….similarly as with the orange Capmorphe behaves with Kalambo to Bismarck POINT (Kasanga) in Tanzania. There nearly blue animals arise and which with orange cap, and some only with black strut.

[tanganyikanhunt]

I posted the webpage. There are clear photos there. As Mr. Smith often mentions on this site, relying on a seller's information is sometimes faulty. Identification by an expert can be helpful. Here, Buescher and Genevelle have identified the fish.