Harpagochromis sp. "orange rock hunter"

[Paul B]

Thought i would start the 'english' speaking section off with a few pictures of fish that are looking nice at the moment.
ORH

[Youenn]

Haplochromis sp. "orange rock hunter"

Please follow this:
Harpagochromis Greenwood [P. H.] 1980:10 [ref. 1899]. Masc. Hemichromis serranus Pfeffer 1896. Type by original designation. •Valid as Harpagochromis Greenwood 1980 -- (Poll & Gosse 1995:279 [ref. 24781]). •Synonym of Haplochromis Hilgendorf 1888 -- (van Oijen et al. 1991:100 [ref. 20956]). Current status: Synonym of Haplochromis Hilgendorf 1888. Cichlidae: Pseudocrenilabrinae.

[warner]

Very, very nice fish indeed

[jiji18]

Hello Paul ,
Or beautiful photo for species (H. chilotes Zue Island / H. sp. orange rock hunter ) which are rare in the hobby haplochrominien
And I ask myself the question about the colors of the fisch , the predominant red color comes from the camera settings or the food
What I want to say , in the future enthusiats who maintain this species come ask us for who and why the color are different
Friendly .
J-Jacques

[Paul B]

In what way are the colours different ?
The pictures were taken within 1 day or so of breeding,from day to day usually a little more subdued.
I will show you a male savaugei i collected from Eric soon, almost completely red !!!
This must be diet and water/filtration (?)

[Youenn]

H,

More red than usual but might be because intense breeding color.
And the kind of camera play also a lot

But very, very impressive fish!!!!

[Paul B]

Sorry for the delay,
I have been intending to list camera (nikon d5000 and T5 lighting give a light orange appearance)
And for food i feed,for many years now i use a small granular food to grow up young fish, one green - Spirulina and one red - Astaxanthin at 1-2 millimetre
also i use new life spectrum and Cyclops-eez

just recently there has been a floating stick/pellet available for larger fish which i have fed both the chilotes and ORH as well as chopped up prawns once a week.
occasionally frozen mosquito larvae

! the sticks are not good for neochromis and the cyaneus is not doing very good with it !

[Paul B]

this sp.'ruby green' was saved from one of the females i took to Lille with me and has been fed the food mentioned.
BUT again was in the act of breeding.

[Paul B]

ORH in the act of breeding

[chalamala]

What a stunning predator ! Are the other fishes (latifasciatus etc... ) not in danger in their company ?