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Posted by Elaine T on July 25, 2005, 8:32 pm
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George Pontis wrote:
> fish@yahoo.com says...
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>>sunshine peacock
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> Thank you Elaine for this ID. I have two others that I surmise to also be A.
> Baenschi. Since they all look different I didn't recognize that they were so
> closely related, but now I find A. Baenschi pictures online that match them
all.
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> I inherited these fish with a tank that I bought second-hand, but didn't do a
good
> enough job recording what's what. They have turned out to be a really good
> community of healthy and interesting fish that seem to not need much but the
> regular water change to keep nitrates in check. And friendly too.
>
> George
You're welcome. He's a dead-on match for the "sample" fish we kept in a
community of Malawi peacocks where I worked ages ago. It's interesting
how many regional color morphs there are of all the rift lake cichlid
species. They remind me of killifish in that regard.
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