Pseudotropheus crabro male

The king of the tank. Ps. crabro male.


By thesweed, shot with DMC-LX3 at 2009-11-20

And some fry.

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Great shots Hakan (can't figure out how you make that cool lookin a, I wish I had a cool symbol in my name )

Love that fish, Håkan. ( Mike)

Does he keep that color as tank boss or does he ever show some yellow?

Aura wrote:Love that fish, Håkan. ( Mike)

Does he keep that color as tank boss or does he ever show some yellow?

Tanks Betty! That crabro male holds that color all the time. My other big male shows some yellow, but not all the time. I hope he will get as dark as this one when i move the crabros to a bigger tank this weekend.

Rift_Lakes_Rule wrote:Great shots Hakan (can't figure out how you make that cool lookin a, I wish I had a cool symbol in my name )

Thanks! We have 3 more letters in our alphabet. å,ä,and ö. I have a friend in LA and it took him 3 weeks to pronounce my name right.

theswede wrote:
Thanks! We have 3 more letters in our alphabet. å,ä,and ö.

That's just not fair, we don't have any cool letters...

just love that fry shot!

I hope you don't mind my fish in your topic, but I just wanted to show you my dominant male. He usually stayed mostly black with the yellow very dull, but once in a while he'd show more yellow. I like the hint of blue on yours.

Aura wrote:I hope you don't mind my fish in your topic, but I just wanted to show you my dominant male. He usually stayed mostly black with the yellow very dull, but once in a while he'd show more yellow. I like the hint of blue on yours.

That´s a good looking crabro u have there. . How big is he?

Sadly, he's gone now. That picture was taken almost 4 years ago. I'm not good at estimating sizes, but I'd say he was around 5 1/2 - 6 inches. He was a big boy, but not at all aggressive.

Aura wrote:Sadly, he's gone now. That picture was taken almost 4 years ago. I'm not good at estimating sizes, but I'd say he was around 5 1/2 - 6 inches. He was a big boy, but not at all aggressive.

Everybody says that crabro is a very aggressive mbuna. But mine is not either. My big male is a sort of cop in the tank. He allowes no fighting among the others.

That is exactly how mine was! He would break up every fight, usually between a greshakei and auratus, and then go about his business. I always said that he was the peacekeeper.

nice fish you two i wish i had picks of mine i use to have when i frist started but i dont i wish i had pics of the livistongi i use to have but i love the carbos for some reason they way they look one day i will have a tank of them

Håkan and Aura great looking fish. Always nice to have a peace keeper in the tank.

cool fish

Some more pics of my crabro male.


By thesweed, shot with DSC-W210 at 2009-12-04


By thesweed, shot with DSC-W210 at 2009-12-04

He's looking very nice. I don't see any battle damage.

i have always liked these fish maybe one day a tank of them

Aura wrote:He's looking very nice. I don't see any battle damage.

He´s a fast healer. If u look at the second pic u see some lighter colored places on his body. Those where fleshwounds a week ago.

A pic of my other big crabro male in my old tank. Today he is almost as dark as the alpha male.


By thesweed, shot with DMC-LX3 at 2009-12-08

A couple of new pics. The first a female and the second my other big male.


By thesweed, shot with Canon EOS 450D at 2009-12-26


By thesweed, shot with Canon EOS 450D at 2009-12-26

nice when did you get the red fin broylis?

I bought the Copadichromis borleyi "Red fin" juvies maybe a month ago.

nice should get some more pics of them