Dither/target fish
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From what I have read, the African peacocks are from the genus Aulonocara and the aulo refers to some sensory organ they have which detects movement of small crustaceans in the sand which they then eat.
Aulonocara
He wont touch bloodworms or brine shrimp anymore, he will only eat peas. He will not eat flakes, cichlid pellets or even spirulina, only peas.
He may be shy of the blood worms because when he was with my danios, I dropped a small chunk of frozen bloodworms as I always do and as they chunk melts the danios eat the worms that float away from the blob. anyway, piggo little cichlid who is no bigger than my zebra danio sucked up the whole frozen blob of bloodworms.
So anyway, now I have no clue what he is or may be. and he is still only about 1.5 inches long so it will be a long time before I can identify him on fishbase. I can't see him getting big quickly eating one pea a day.
From what I have read, the African peacocks are from the genus Aulonocara and the aulo refers to some sensory organ they have which detects movement of small crustaceans in the sand which they then eat.
Aulonocara
He wont touch bloodworms or brine shrimp anymore, he will only eat peas. He will not eat flakes, cichlid pellets or even spirulina, only peas.
He may be shy of the blood worms because when he was with my danios, I dropped a small chunk of frozen bloodworms as I always do and as they chunk melts the danios eat the worms that float away from the blob. anyway, piggo little cichlid who is no bigger than my zebra danio sucked up the whole frozen blob of bloodworms.
So anyway, now I have no clue what he is or may be. and he is still only about 1.5 inches long so it will be a long time before I can identify him on fishbase. I can't see him getting big quickly eating one pea a day.
Pea=Peacock? lol, not sure 
Also what size tank is this in? I agree that it's normally best to go the 'natural' route and use controlled overstocking if dealing with mbuna.
Also what size tank is this in? I agree that it's normally best to go the 'natural' route and use controlled overstocking if dealing with mbuna.
He looks identical to the picture of a female blue peacock that they sell on liveaquaria.com, but someone pointed out that that is not a goood site to identify a cichlid so I looked on fishbase and he matches the peacocks in shape and has 8 or 9 stripes running up and down. He is brownish with a hint of blue on the front of his dorsal fin and a hint of yellow on the very top edge of of the dorsal fin. All the mbuna I have seen appear to be longer and he is more stout, similar to a small mouth bass.
So basically I have no idea what he is, I will post a pic as soon as I get a chance
Well at that small it might well be more difficult to get a good ID, however a pic would be helpfull so the ones who are real familiar with them could give you a good idea.
A 40 tall wouldn't be near as useful as something with a larger footprint rather than height. Peacocks and mbuna both need territory and it's difficult to divvy up a tall tank for several fish for those guys.
A 40 tall wouldn't be near as useful as something with a larger footprint rather than height. Peacocks and mbuna both need territory and it's difficult to divvy up a tall tank for several fish for those guys.
I will get a pic as soon as I get him in the 20. So much work to do. The 20 has to go into the 40 and then I have about 20 fish to try and catch and replant everything and clean 20 lbs of sand.
Space limits me severely and with a 4 year old, a 10 year old and 12 year old running around the house, the tank needs to be in an out of the way place.
I figure that the 20 will suffice for the cichlid until he is about 2 - 2.5 inches and more readily identified. That is why I was thinking about a few swordtails to keep him company for the time being because the swordtails can tolerate the hard high ph water that the eco complete will make.
I was going to put him in the 40, but the 20 with the 2 blue rams is a bit crowded so he has to fly solo for now.
Space limits me severely and with a 4 year old, a 10 year old and 12 year old running around the house, the tank needs to be in an out of the way place.
I figure that the 20 will suffice for the cichlid until he is about 2 - 2.5 inches and more readily identified. That is why I was thinking about a few swordtails to keep him company for the time being because the swordtails can tolerate the hard high ph water that the eco complete will make.
I was going to put him in the 40, but the 20 with the 2 blue rams is a bit crowded so he has to fly solo for now.
Awesome, the swordtails are on sale at PetCo for $1 each. I was going to give the boys the 10g once I moved the cichlid to the 20g. I went to Pet Supermarket to get them a stand and found a perfecto 20g stand and tank there for $40 which was a few bucks more than the 10g stand so I got it for them. They wanted fish also so I got them two opaline gouramis on sale for $1 each at PetCo. Kinda foolish, but I managed to get their 20g up an running and the gouramis in there in a few hours, luckily I had an extra running filter and 10 gallons of aged water and a bucket of seasoned gravel. I figure once the cichlid's long term home is resolved, the swordtails can go in with the gouramis.
I noticed you are from SC, I lived there for 8 years, 4 at Shaw AFB in Sumter and went to college at USC-Columbia. My oldest daughter is starting at Clemson in the fall.
I noticed you are from SC, I lived there for 8 years, 4 at Shaw AFB in Sumter and went to college at USC-Columbia. My oldest daughter is starting at Clemson in the fall.
Awesome! Big Clemson fan myself, we're always up there for games. My dad went there and my brother is heading there this fall as well i believe...he'll be up there soon at least.
My dad went there and my brother is heading there this fall as well i believe...he'll be up there soon at least.
I went to Petsmart yesterday and got 3 swordtail to keep the little guy company and was getting ready to move him to his new home and I found him dead alongside a rock. He must have died overnight because he had come out the prior afternoon to eat and had looked healthy. Someone had turned the ac way down overnight and when I woke up the house was like 65 degrees. His water was perfect and I was doing small water changes every few days. I had a small piece of coral in t the tank which kept the ph around 7.4. The only thing I can think that killed him was the cold unless he died because he was lonely.
