Eretmodus Blue spot

[malawione]

Hello,I recently picked

up some of these fish to go with my tropheus,they are smaller and will need to be grown out some.I

really like how they(walk) on the bottom of the tank.Anyone else keeping these fish have any

suggestions?I feed them the same food as my tropheus.Cool fish!!!!! http://cichlid.ipbhost.com/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ph34r.gif

[bobrfish]

Hope they do well for you

Malawione.

To date my efforts with Eretmodus have been dismal. They are cool looking

fish though. Best of Luck.

[Led]

I had some Wild Burundi Erets. My

Tropheus killed them off. http://cichlid.ipbhost.com/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif They were SWEET too! I now have some of the Blue spots

also. I love the Gobies. Their movements and facial features are cool and unique IMO. http://cichlid.ipbhost.com/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif

[Apexpredator]

I actually have a WC

group of 6 mixed in with my monster petrochromis. The petros completely ignore them and the

bluespots are fairly aggressive with each other. Spawning appears to be taking place but I have

yet to see any fry.

Try taking them out of your Tropheus tank and placing them in

another tank. They will probably do better as tropheus can make for tempremental tankmates at

times.

[malawione]

I haven't added

them to the tank with my tropheus yet,they are alot smaller than my tropheus,so I was going to wait

until I move my trophs. to a 75 gall. and mix them in at that time.I got them from the same guy

that LED got his from and he has his in with the Trophs.I had read somewhere that they make good

tankmates for tropheus and it has worked well for the guy I got them from,he has had three spawns

so far since mixing them.Interesting to me is the fact that they actually switch holders on the fry

and the male ends up holding them in the end,are there other fish that display this same behavior?

Thanks for the wish of good luck Bobr,they are very interesting fish indeed!! http://cichlid.ipbhost.com/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif How are you doing LED,how big are yours?Mine are about 1

inch and I have 8 of them in with 8 golden Ocellatus,they seem to ignore eachother,except when the

Gobys get too close to the shells. I might have to rethink the grouping of these fish and go with

something else if the trophs are going to be too aggressive? M1

[Led]

Well, the Blue Spots I have

might be 1.25" or a hair more. They are doing well. Tell Oyster I got one mystery fish

though out of my group of 8. I have no idea what he is yet. He is growing faster than the gobies

though. Which makes sense. He is probably 1.75" or more. http://cichlid.ipbhost.com/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif I will get a pic sometime and send it to

you two. Maybe you can figure out what he is since you know what Oyster has. http://cichlid.ipbhost.com/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif

[malawione]

LED,send the pic. when you

can,he told me that he was having trouble separating them,the guy does so well at breeding fish he

is somewhat overwhelmed with fry,he has 60 lithobates fry he wants to give me to raise and sell.I

am going to take him up on it and give him 50% of the proffits.Not a bad deal for either of us?
My eretmodus are about the same size as yours,they like to hide out in the rocks.They really are

cool fish,even if their face is a bit (Froggy) http://cichlid.ipbhost.com/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif

[Led]

Well, their face is one of the

reasons I like them. They always seem to have a little smile on them and it is kind of funny IMO.

Much like Tropheus.
The issue with putting fry somewhere has been troubling me for years.

I finally traded a few groups off to Jim in Adel so I would have room. Opened up a few tanks so I

have some room to growout and spawn the Albino Taiwan Reef that I picked up in Texas. I have them

in 2 tanks growing out and I took one of my largest males and put him into a 3rd tank with two

standard TR females....hoping to get some split gene fry. http://cichlid.ipbhost.com/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif
I will try to get a pic of this fish

sometime. I will clean the glass and get one to send off...shoot for sometime in the next week.

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[Malawi Wowwie]

I have had 5 Eretmodus

Cyanostictus (Cape Bengwe) in the same tank as my 18 Tropheus Duboisi Maswa for almost a year now.

They are in a HEAVILY rocked 55g, and they, for the most part, ignore each other. They were

introduced while both species were very young though. Good luck with your group.

[malawione]

I moved mine to a larger

tank today with a lighter substrate,and it made a real difference in how they look.

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What a great fish IMO, M1 http://cichlid.ipbhost.com/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ph34r.gif

[Led]

Looks great M1! http://cichlid.ipbhost.com/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif

[malawione]

Thanks LED how are yours

shaping up!Mine are from the same parents as yours. Did you know that in Europe they sometimes

call them clown cichlids,seems appropriate with the constant smile they have for a mouth,they make

me smile too! M1

[Led]

I only have 3 left out of

7......the 8th fish I got from Oyster is some type of mbuna and he did the other 4 in before I took

him out. I am not sure what he is. I am going to trade him off to Jim at the NE swap since even

if he is really cool I will still only have one of them. Kind of ticks me off that he smoked my

little erets. http://cichlid.ipbhost.com/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif The 3 I have left are

doing better now since I moved him. Hopefully, they will really kick in and take off now. http://cichlid.ipbhost.com/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif