kaybee
04-08-2009, 04:32 AM
Here are some of my frontosa's:
This guy is the largest of my fronts at about 11"/28cm, and still growing (burundi variant). He likes to chase most of the others.
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a259/y2kenny19/African%20Cichlids%202009/burapr09.jpg
This kigoma used to be the largest for perhaps the first two years I had them (I got them all when they were 1"-1.5" four years ago),until it got outpaced by the burundi, he's currently perhaps a half-inch shorter in length than the big burundi and not as thick from top to bottom. Despite the smaller size, he's maintained the role of dominant frontosa since they were tiny. Quite the loner and recluse (but woe be any frontosa that approaches his den, they get run off pretty quick). There are two other 7-stripers in the tank a 6.5" and an 8-incher, they're the smallest fronts in the tank (no pics posted of them yet).
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a259/y2kenny19/African%20Cichlids%202009/kigapr09.jpg
Here's a southern tanzanian variant (at about 10"). This one has the most blue pigmentation of all the ones I have and is also the greediest and most outgoing frontosa in the tank when it comes to eating treats:
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a259/y2kenny19/African%20Cichlids%202009/tanz.jpg
Here are a couple of the above fish when they were a LOT smaller (back in 2005 when the 180gal was quite spacious), the tanzanian is at the left and burundi at the right:
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a259/y2kenny19/African%20Cichlids%202009/2005.jpg
This guy is the largest of my fronts at about 11"/28cm, and still growing (burundi variant). He likes to chase most of the others.
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a259/y2kenny19/African%20Cichlids%202009/burapr09.jpg
This kigoma used to be the largest for perhaps the first two years I had them (I got them all when they were 1"-1.5" four years ago),until it got outpaced by the burundi, he's currently perhaps a half-inch shorter in length than the big burundi and not as thick from top to bottom. Despite the smaller size, he's maintained the role of dominant frontosa since they were tiny. Quite the loner and recluse (but woe be any frontosa that approaches his den, they get run off pretty quick). There are two other 7-stripers in the tank a 6.5" and an 8-incher, they're the smallest fronts in the tank (no pics posted of them yet).
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a259/y2kenny19/African%20Cichlids%202009/kigapr09.jpg
Here's a southern tanzanian variant (at about 10"). This one has the most blue pigmentation of all the ones I have and is also the greediest and most outgoing frontosa in the tank when it comes to eating treats:
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a259/y2kenny19/African%20Cichlids%202009/tanz.jpg
Here are a couple of the above fish when they were a LOT smaller (back in 2005 when the 180gal was quite spacious), the tanzanian is at the left and burundi at the right:
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a259/y2kenny19/African%20Cichlids%202009/2005.jpg