My first ulwiles colony

[myjohnson]

This is my 75g tropheus set-up. I have a colony of 26 ulwiles. Hope you guys enjoy the pictures.  Please excuse the poor cameramen skill's.

WC dominate male.



Sub-dominate male.



Sub-dominate male with a group of young ladies.

[ddaquaria]

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Those are nice.  Makes me miss my brichardi group.

[J-WS6]

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awesome! you might want to consider upgrading to a larger tank once they get closer to adult hood. 26 adults would be cramped in a 75 gallon and  will begin killing each other off to make up for the loss of territory/space.

[edmlfc]

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They are beatuiful!

[geoff_tropheus]

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26 fish is a bit excessive, in a 75 gallon.

If your stuck in a 4ft wall space look at getting into a 120 or 140 gallon, otherwise a 6ft 125 would be ideal for them.

Really nice picutres, and really nice looking fish.  It can be really hard to photograph tropheus, always on the move.  I think you did a great job capturing them.  Thanks for sharing..

I really like these guys.  Ek, has them also.  Where did you get this colony?  From Old world or some other place?

Geoff

[Delock]

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Nice group you have...breeding will begin real soon...

[geoff_tropheus]

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looks like he has some fry in there already

[Delock]

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look like a group of 1.5 to 2 inchers..

When I got my group some of them displayed light colors....

[myjohnson]

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ddaquaria,

    If you miss them so much I can always trade some fries for some of those RR fries you got.  RR are damn sweet!


J-WS6,

   Thanks for the advice.  I been reading a lot about tank size and how many Ts to keep in it. To say the less, a lot people have different ideas on the wright tank size.  As for now I will try and keep them in the 75g.....but if things go bad (which I think it will when they are all fully grown and all breeding) I will upgrade to a 6 footer. Again, thanks for the advice.

edmlfc,

   Thanks for the kind words.....I'm a noob to tropheus and taking pictures.

geoff_tropheus,

   Again, thanks for the kind words. I have seen pictures from EK's group.  Those things look like monster! I got this group from a homey hook-up. Not all are WC. Some of the smaller ones are F1s.

delock,

  If I been reading on the forum correctly EK got his stock from you? Regarding the breeding, I got one female holding right now.  But she is young and I'm sure she is going to eat them again.

[eklikewhoa]

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Betcha my Ulwiles could beat up your Ulwiles....

[finfan]

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very nice, someday in the future i need a colony of trophs

[Delock]

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yeah I sold my colony to ek...nice group. really thanking about bring another huge colony to go with my dubs.

brichardi (sp) trophs grow pretty big. you may want to start looking for a 6 footer to house them in.

[eklikewhoa]

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You know what will go good with those dub delock..........Annectens!

[myjohnson]

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eklikewhoa,

   " Betcha my Ulwiles could beat up your Ulwiles...." I don't think mine will get beat-up.....I think they might get eaten!  :( I would love me some Annectens too!:emtthumbs:

finfan,

   If you keep fish long enough it will happen....the addition continues to spread.

delock,

   Yeah, I have read and have seen pictures of these things becoming little monsters. I been keeping my eyes open for a bigger tank.  You know.....if you ever want to sell that swimming pool of a tank you have let me know first! :wink:

[J-WS6]

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you're welcome. by the way, where'd you get the rocks? it looks similar to ada style rock, i like the texture. can you post a full tank shot?