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haplochromis lust
10-19-2009, 4:50 PM
Anyone keep these thay are my favorite c/a. so much attitude and good looks to. I have a nice male in 75 gallon by himself. he came from a ppair i got from ken. so you know hes what he was sold as and not no fh.
anyway lets see some trimacs
Vaudeville
10-19-2009, 5:37 PM
Got any photos?
What size are they I might have a tank freeing up
haplochromis lust
10-19-2009, 7:23 PM
i do have photos but comp sucks and dos not work right but hay i got a working? copey of windows me on this thing if that tells you anything> i need collector plates to cruse the web!
ikevi
10-19-2009, 11:08 PM
I have a nice pair... though sadly I have gotten no fry out of them. (She laid eggs ~5 times and has since stopped, he never did his thing.) If I have time I may post some pictures.
haplochromis lust
10-20-2009, 7:21 AM
ah man that sucks. get him some fishy viagra.
Yah, every time I turn the lights on I am treated to courtship... Here are some photos I just took. They have great color. (Female gets a little beaten up but as you can see from her fins she is doing fairly well.) I mean I will even see them both start to drop tubes but nothing has come of it so far. I grew these guys out from a bag of six I got from Ken Davis at an auction I think they are about 3 years old now. They are in a 400.
And now some pictures. (Just snapped them off didn't go out my way to make them look good.)
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c61/ikevi10/Fish/Trimacs007.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c61/ikevi10/Fish/Trimacs053.jpg
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http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c61/ikevi10/Fish/Trimacs053.jpg
pitdogg2
10-23-2009, 9:02 PM
man i love the Tri-Mack great fish!!! Although I always seem to gravitate back to them I've had quite a few over the years. I've been waiting for my LPS in my area to get some in for a few years now,don't know why but it seems that they haven't been able to get them. For 10yrs it seems they were never without a few but now that i want to get some they can't get them....
Great pictures got to like the red eyes and chest ......and sorry but I HATE THE FLOWERHORN CRAZE.....
Matt Quinn
10-23-2009, 9:35 PM
Trimacs are available - your LFS just needs to order some from a quality source (e.g. Ken Davis, Jeff Rapps)... point them in the right direction.
But please don't blame them not ordering these fish on flowerhorns...
Matt
pitdogg2
10-23-2009, 10:10 PM
Trimacs are available - your LFS just needs to order some from a quality source (e.g. Ken Davis, Jeff Rapps)... point them in the right direction.
But please don't blame them not ordering these fish on flowerhorns...
Matt
I don't blame them
They won't carry Flowerhorns.... I have pointed them to Jeff Rapps but i could order them from Rapps myself. I don't have the money to order $50.00 worth of stock and then pay the 80.00 NDA fee. My LPS did check with Rapps and there was some sort of limitations set forth. Before you jump me for what ever reason I trust these owners I've sold them fish from my pairs for years and they are very trust worthy. Most of their stock comes from the wholesalers and if they aren't on the listing they can't order. Once a year one of them will put a big order Don Conkel and even then they are very hit or miss. Don sold him 20 trimac's on the order form but in reality what they got was Dovii. When ordering from Jeff Rapps It's the same price to the LFS as it is to the aquarist like myself so really no incentive for the LFS owner. It's hard to cover cost of the fish & shipping and any loss, so it is very hard to justify a 25-40 dollars ea. for the cichlids when you have your petco's and wal-marts selling them for 5-6 bucks or less. Yes I know they are not the same quaility but people like us keep fish for a long time and your johnny come lately's won't shell out 20 bucks a fish let alone any more than that, that in reality will probably die within 3 months
pitdogg2
10-23-2009, 10:17 PM
Trimacs are available - your LFS just needs to order some from a quality source (e.g. Ken Davis, Jeff Rapps)... point them in the right direction.
But please don't blame them not ordering these fish on flowerhorns...
Matt
I was just voicing my displeasure of Flowerhorns I don't fault anybody for keeping them. Like the Red Parrot the Flowerhorn is a hybrid and I'm more of a purist. If i was to keep Discus I would still search out the Browns and Tefe Greens. My honest opinion
haplochromis lust
11-05-2009, 7:03 PM
sweet fish nice pics i wish mine still had his old lady she became a victum of dimestic abuse.
here is my pair that i got from TUIC
Female
http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo158/young_rico86/trimacs/IMG_1302.jpg
http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo158/young_rico86/trimacs/IMG_1327.jpg
http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo158/young_rico86/trimacs/IMG_1330.jpg
http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo158/young_rico86/trimacs/IMG_1331.jpg
Male
http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo158/young_rico86/trimacs/IMG_1304.jpg
http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo158/young_rico86/trimacs/IMG_1306.jpg
http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo158/young_rico86/trimacs/IMG_1307.jpg
http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo158/young_rico86/trimacs/IMG_1308.jpg
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http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo158/young_rico86/trimacs/IMG_1335.jpg
Ben Hill
12-17-2011, 10:58 PM
- I guess this must bee Trimacs from the wild. Just beautiful! I have got a pair Flowerhorns sold as "caugt in the wild".... but since I live in the cold north, we havent seen much... Thank you for pictures!
DogFish
12-18-2011, 7:11 PM
- I guess this must bee Trimacs from the wild. Just beautiful! I have got a pair Flowerhorns sold as "caugt in the wild".... but since I live in the cold north, we havent seen much... Thank you for pictures!
This post took a while to show up on the ACA forum. I'm sorry about that.
This is a very interesting post, "Flowerhorns sold as cought in the wild" :eek: Would you please do me a big favor and find out were they cought them!!
smitty
12-18-2011, 8:44 PM
A show stopper.
pitdogg2
12-19-2011, 8:24 AM
This is a very interesting post, "Flowerhorns sold as cought in the wild" :eek: Would you please do me a big favor and find out were they cought them!!
Duh from a concrete vat in southeast Asia....
The Tri-Mack was one of my first "maneaters" still have a softspot in my heart for them. For the most part I'm too afraid to buy one from a fish store because some "Flowerhorn" breeders dump their culls to the wholesalers.
great pictures!!
Red Tiger
12-19-2011, 11:14 AM
I have 7 in all. Only 4 shown in pics. These hail from Rapps,Davis, and the Jennings.
http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/x450/LaHue/DSCN6029.jpg
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