CRap HAs HIT the FaN Boulengerochromis microlepis are moved in! updated MOAR VIDS!

[peterp63]

Thanks! I'll have to go check them out. How can you tell the difference between the emperor cichlid (Aulonocara nyassae) and Boulengerochromis microlepis?? Some articles actually call these guys emperors....

[peterp63]

scientific names / common names

http://cichlidresearch.com/names.html

[geoff_tropheus]

"Aulonocara" is a Peacock, come from Lake Malawi. Peacocks get a little over 6" from time to time.

You Microclepis is a Tanganyikan and has a much more rigid looking body, and a completely different looking head and fins all over.

[peterp63]

Ok, well I messed that up. Is the Microlepis THE CICHLID. Like, the biggest cichlid. Like, the one that everybody talks about. I keep seeing pictures and articles that have fish that look like the microlepis, but are called EMPEROR CICHLIDS.

[peterp63]

http://www.deeblestone.com/stills_pix_detail.php?stillsId=17&stillscatId=1&sDispOrder=5

[geoff_tropheus]

YES!!!
boulengerochromis microlepis

[peterp63]

thanks Geoff!

[gotticgs]

Fish R Us has the two that Chris didn't get... looks like 2 females. He wanted $200 ea! I'm thinking that you can talk him
down.

no he just got them 2 weeks ago i would say

probably from the same spawn though

[peterp63]

Anyone know how much Xtreme is selling their's for?

[gotticgs]

69.00 i bought them from fish r us for 59

[peterp63]

You know if that one is a male? Why are you thinking yours are females?

[gotticgs]

i was told

[gotticgs]

need to be vented