How large are wild caught rift lakers

[wayne at home]

Soulfish - are you still working with a cichlid distributor? Do you see many wild caught fish? How big are they.
I'm familiar with wild caught apistos which are usually much larger than tank raised, and ditto I've seen plenty of 3inch rams. But I believe that due ti the iften grim feeding conditions in the rift lakes wild caught fish are often small. I've just seen some wild caught tropheus moorii that were about an inch and a half max , adult!, and here rumours of 'flocks' of 2 inch haps. Does this sound likely?

 

[SoulFish]

Wild caughts are the size of full growns, those "wild caught" tropheus were probably truely F1s raised on the lake at fish farms then sent here, most wild caughts will usually be the size of a normal full grown of the species, btw i dont work at the farm now

 

[wayne]

No the tropheus were genuine wild caught, they'd only been for a few weeks