Friday 27 November 2015

CYPRICHROMIS LEPTOSOMA (London Zoo) - FANTASTIC CICHLIDS OF LAKE TANGANYIKA

Another one of my favourites and this time a Cichlid from Lake Tanganyika is this stunningly beautiful fish.

These will one day occupy two, two metre aquariums owned by me with the two most favourite fish of mine in each also from Lake Tanganyika ...

Cyathopharynx furcifer and various Tropheus of moorii mainly along with duboisi, brichardi, sp. RED and sp. BLACK ...

For God sake bloody name the damn things properly damn you! Lol!

Oh I think they are 'leptosoma'?

I love that lake and would love to venture there one day!

I was already very highly knowledgeable on fish, amphibians and other animals at the age of 16 as my Dad haad a famous pet shop and we were importers when I visited another importer and saw a tank full of Tropheus moorii 'Kaiser' and was stopped in my tracks!

I spent year killing several types before an author named Ad Konings, I spoke to years later, pointed out in his first book that bloodworm block their intestines and kills them!

A few years later I saw Cyathopharynx furcifer and to my shock that just pipped Tropheus moorii at becoming my favourite fish!

Up until then I had loved the North American Rainbow Dace and Darters, Killifish and varoius other mouth brooding Cichlids like Egyptian Mouthbreeders, Dwarf Cichlids and various others.

Amphibians were always y absolute number one thing but these and many others played a close second to these ...

Like Green Tree Pythons, Chondropythoin, noooo CHONDROPYTHON, (Morelia) viridis. SOme of the European Lacertids, like Wall Lizards, Gila Monsters and Beaded Dragons, Plumed Basilisks and others.


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