Ad konings does a very good jon of explaining the different fish at Minos Reef - red zebras etc. Personal experiences in the aquarium however my white male has not bred AFAIK If you guys dont see any egg dummies on your redxred fish they are either a) not estherae, b) not red zebra or c) a crossbreed.ĭiving experience at Minos Reef, Chiloleo, Gome and Chiofu, where I watched breeding occur in the wild Condition the fish with a high quality diet composed mainly of vegetable matter. The pH should be around 8.2-8.5 and the temperature 77-80F. There is a COBALT blue zebra also at Minos Reef with brown females, (metriaclima zebra blue reef) this. what the florida guys do is import a white male and breed it like crazy A 48 aquarium is a good size (although larger is preferable) and this should be furnished as suggested above, along with some flat rocks and areas of open substrate to act as potential spawning sites. lue male + OB Female Blue male fry, OB female fry. made by courting males of three closely related Lake Malawi cichlid species. However most common in the petstore is "RedxRed" which was created if you remember above I said white male + orange female = orange males and female fry. REFERENCES Altstein, M., Gazit, Y., Aziz, O.B., Gabay, T., Marcus, R. So those fish you see in the hobby "red zebra" are probably metriaclima estherae IF there is a blue male and they have egg dummies on their dorsal. WHITE male + O female = ORANGE male, orange femaleīlue male + brown female = blue male, brown female So - the metriaclima estheraes know to stay away from Blue Reefs ( and not crossbreed).īlue Male + Orange Female = Blue male fry, orange female fry.īlue male + OB Female = Blue male fry, OB female fry. There is a COBALT blue zebra also at Minos Reef with brown females, (metriaclima zebra blue reef) this fish does NOT have egg dummies on it's dorsal. This is the only species of metriaclima (formerly pseudotropheus) that has egg dummies in a spot other than the anal fin. About 10km south of Minos reef you get yellower females, further still down near Chiofu you get brown females.Īll Estherae have yellow "egg spots" on the back of their dorsal fin. Males are blue, there are white ones too but they are rare. Red Zebra, aka Metriaclima Estherae is caught from Minos Reef, central eastern Lake Malawi.
the estheraes were named after Esther Grant, wife of Stuart Grant one of the exporters from Lake Malawi (Kambiri Point,Salima) Share your fish and tanks with other hobbyists.
Red zebras are probably my favourite fish because of what I am about to explain. ob red zebra by mo beats is for cichlid lovers. Soulfish pretty much summed it up but I can go into further detail.
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