Tropheus Kabimba "Canary Cheek" - Discussion

[ddaquaria]

They are awesome fishes...Donald kept them before in pondraised, and then got rid of them for some reason..not sure why?

Boredom.

They are are bland chocolate color with only yellow on the cheeks. The pictures shown earlier are not right, and I'll show some shots later.

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[newb]

please do!

[newb]

I have never seen Kabimba wild collected. I have only seen them in Burundi pondraised juviniles, or in tankraised from these colonies.

Can you bring in Adult Pond Raised or do I have to start with juvies? Littleafricaaquatics has juvies right now.

[geoff_tropheus]

There is a range in color in the fish. The color of these guy will range from..

this


to

that

[geoff_tropheus]

The only time I have seen Adult Pondraised is from time to time, you will see Burundi sell off their old pond breeders.

Keep an eye out for them, they are usually listed by size on the Old World Exotic Inventory list in their tang import/farm section.

Earlier this year, I almost got some just to have them, but Old World Exotic listed Kiriza 4-5" for sale in that list, and they were old breeders.

[myjohnson]

Can you bring in Adult Pond Raised or do I have to start with juvies? Littleafricaaquatics has juvies right now.

Greg always has a decent selection of fishes. I would guess anywhere form 20-50% are from Old World and the rest he brings in from the lake. If you can find someone to bring fishes in directly from Old World I would think that might be cheaper.

[russ]

i would figure if anybody could it would be mike, bethesdaboy.
they are an awesome troph.
my dream trophs are malagarasi's, aka green wimples.

i think cichlids and herps had,or has the green wimple!

[gotticgs]

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