Tilapia buttikoferi Pics

[Kevin Cumberton]

Tilapia buttikoferi -

Female 13" she is longer than a 55gallon tank is wide! Shes 6years old Ive had her since

she was less than 1" long. She occupies a 48"x18" 90gallon tank all by herself.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid134/pf330bcc38ced9c726efe495678ea6ad8/f770200b.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid134/p0847dc33db8626ae22fd7167b4d788ab/f770204d.jpg


Since the tank is in the bedroom I often wake

up in the middle of the night to the sound of her trying to eat her way out of the tank ???
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid134/pe4a2ec84d33d286afbb7ddfbafbc2497/f7702002.jpg

[JustRon]

nice pictures

[Led]

Wow, that is a big fish. She

looks great too! I can see why she is alone, it would be difficult to find suitable tankmates

I bet.

[Kevin Cumberton]

<!--QuoteBegin-Led+Nov 8

2004, 08:31 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Led @ Nov 8 2004, 08:31 AM)</div><div

class='quotemain'>I can see why she is alone, it would be difficult to find

suitable tankmates I bet.</div>
Since the photo was posted I

have gotten my hands on a very impressive male of similar size. They are now in a divided 6'

150gallon tank. The female as gotten very excited but the male seems to have no interest as of yet.

fingers crossed...

[Led]

Got pretty lucky getting a suitable

mate for her. http://cichlid.ipbhost.com/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif Does the male have a lot

of blue in him?? I used to have buttis and it seemed like some of them had blue and others

didn't. I was a newbie then and wasn't much into spawning any fish so at that time I

didn't vent fish or even guess M or F.