Free -- Five juvenie rainbow cichlids

[hollyfish2000]

They range in size but are all over 1". Not sexable, but the large ones are probably boys and the smaller are girls. Pick up only in Gaithersburg

 

[turfboss]

Let's see - I have about 30 (maybe 35) hard to count of yours in a tank - they are all in the 1 to 1.5" range (gee I'll bet they are related ) if no one else wants them I'll take them and add to the ones I already have from you.

 

[hollyfish2000]

yes, these are the leftovers who refused to get caught when you got most of their siblings. Let's see if someone else is interested, if not, they're yours.

 

[dogofwar]

Great fish and a wonder intro to New World cichlids. If you don't have BAP points for spawning these guys (99% of the club), then give them a try...

Matt

 

[mchambers]

I've also got an extra about the same size, one which hid when his/her siblings were netted out for the October meeting. If anyone's interested, let me know.

 

[hollyfish2000]

Hey Matt, stop horning in on my action!!!!!!!!!!

 

[mchambers]

I meant if you are interested after Holly's fish are gone. If, for example, five just aren't enough.

 

[dogofwar]

What's funny is that no one had these fish a couple of years ago...

Matt

 

[Hannibal]

What size tank would be ideal for these guys?

 

[mchambers]

I think you'd want a 55 if you're going to have more than two. Once they start breeding, they stake out a pretty big area.

 

[mchambers]

Yup

What's funny is that no one had these fish a couple of years ago...

Matt

And then Holly started distributing them around the club, so all credit and/or blame is hers!

Actually, they're great fish, so I'll go with credit on that.

 

[turfboss]

Holly - if someone wants some of the 35 or so that I have (if 5 is not enough and Matt does not have enough to make a school for someone - I am willing to donate some of the ones you gave me as well - else I will take what you have and give them away later. Maybe I could sell some of them on Aquabid since everybody in CCA and probably PVAS already had tanks full of them

 

[turfboss]

tank size

unless of course you keep them in a 20H like the 20H I have with about 30 convicts in it - no aggression since there are so many of them - and after awhile they stop producing - or if they produce they are just producing food for the others Right now the 35 I have from Holly are in a 10 gal growing out - they were like dots when I got them from her.

 

[jonclark96]

You could keep a pair in a 29 pretty comfortably, although bigger is always better.

 

[hollyfish2000]

They are a great fish, and I think selling them on Aquabid is a great idea. Yeah, a pair would be fine in a 29. And they're not hard on other fish -- tetras, cories, BNs, etc, so they can have company. It's trying to put in a second pair that it gets tough. I have managed to have two pair in a 58, but only if it's really really well planted in such as way as to divide it into to territories. And after a while, that doesn't end up working well.

 

[rainforestexp]

If they are still available I can pick them up at the Christmas party or afterwards since your in the same city

 

[hollyfish2000]

Chris -- that sounds like a plan!!

 

[Adawson88]

Are there any left?

 

[mchambers]

I have one that is not taken. I live in DC, not far from downtown Silver Spring. Let me know if you're interested.

By the way, there will be more, I'm sure, because my pair reproduces pretty frequently.