Altolamprologus calvus "white Chaitika"

I picked up five of these back in September. They are small 1 - 1.25 inches, so they have a lot of growing to do. They are always darting around and very hard to take pictures of!

Great pictures.

Very nice Betty, You're gonna love em

Very cool looking! Nice pics as well.

lookin good

Nice pics B.

deff sweet pick up

Thanks!

They look great!

J, I'd like to see some pictures of yours as well.

A few new pictures. They don't look much different, but they are growing, slowly.

love white calvus

Very nice!

A little update: I think I might have two males and three females.
Do they look any bigger? It doesn't seem like they are growing at all, but looking back at the pictures, they look more mature to me.

Probable male #1.


And male #2.


Maybe (hopeful) females. I'm thinking they are females because they are allowed into the territories of the two I think are males and they are smaller in size.

Great shots and lovely looking calvus! I agree that they look more and more like adults when it comes to the body shape. It must be tough for species like this to survive in the wild when they are so slow growing.

Great looking fish. I love altos.

Love everything about this tank & fish !

Thank you.

I think the rocks have similar coloring and markings.

Very nice Betty!!!

Nothing new -- they still look the same. 50% weekly water changes and plenty of food, but not much growth.

Very very nice! Do you clean the rocks? Never any algae in this tank.

Thanks. I have a small bristlenose pleco in this tank that does a pretty good job on the algae.

I did try white sand for awhile to see if the fish would lighten up their color, but it developed a terrible algae of some sort that the pleco wouldn't touch. It only grew on the sand.

The biggest fish has had some brownish spots on him that I don't remember seeing before, but it doesn't seem to affect him at all. I hope it isn't a problem. It's one of those things that is so hard to research and find a clear answer about.