Hi I realize this thread is a few months old and I'm not a regular around here but happened across this thread and can say I saw this before in my petricola/lucipinnis I kept around 10 years ago. The marks would come and go, sometimes look faint like the picture above, sometimes a much more opaque ...

How do I find importers? I've never worked with any and wouldn't know who I could trust.


P.S. Atlantis said not now but to try back in a couple months.

I was just researching to find out if there were any catfish larger than multipunctata that I could keep in a large all male malawi hap/peacock cichlid tank I'm planning (8x2x2 240 minimum), found the granulosa profile, 10" *check*, hard water *check*, abosultely beautiful *check*

Then I start ...

amiidae wrote:Finally !!

Sorry to bump a 1+yo thread, but my god where can I get me one of those!

30 gal....most likely a 12 x 24 inch footprint...would be minimum for a group of six adult S.lucipinnis IMO.

Actually its a 48"x12" footprint, 12" depth. Love that tank, best $70 bucks I ever spent. Based on your comments, with double the footprint I'd probably be good with 2-4 more as adults ...

Hello. I'm new to the boards here. Back in November I purchased groups of 2 mbuna cichlid species, and a group of 6 syno Lucipinnis ~1" (well, they were sold as petricola, but I believe they're probably lucipinnis). They have been living together in a 55g tank since november.

Right now, I have a ...