Sentences with phrase «large cichlid»

Frankly, it can be a fairly grisly scene when a large cichlid dismantles a goldfish.

fry as feeder fish to larger cichlids.

The 20 - gallon is just big enough that people will try to keep larger cichlids in it.

Not exact matches

Chernoff has compiled a staggering collection so far, including, at top left, collection jars used to maintain specimens in alcohol; facing right and up, two red - eyed piranhas; far right, a fish head and the skin of an Arapaima gigas, South America's largest freshwater fish; across the bottom, cichlid, tetra, and aruanã skeletons.

A new study shows that cichlid fish reared in larger social groups from birth display a greater and more extensive range of social interactions, which continues into the later life of the fish.

Lamprologus is a cichlid, one of the most diverse animal groups in existence, despite being mostly confined to three large lakes in Africa.

In the article, the evolutionary and fish biologists Matt McGee and Ole Seehausen report that, because of a specialized jaw structure, fish - eating cichlids in Africa's largest lake take a long time to swallow their prey and are thus no match for competitors that can feed much more rapidly.

But while a number of cichlid species, feeding largely on crustaceans or plants, managed to adapt and recover, of the 100 or so species which, like the Nile perch, live on larger fish, more than 80 became extinct.

Nature 2014, 513, 375 - 381 — Nature News & Views Cichlid fishes are famous for large, diverse and replicated adaptive radiations in the Great Lakes of East Africa.

Dr. Beatty's personal pets consist of a Yellow lab named Libby, four large Red - footed Tortoises, three male cats named Elvin, Geo, and Veda, a Bearded Dragonnamed Seymore, a Red - tailed Boa named Edith, a 92 gallon saltwater reef tank, a 150 gallon cichlid tank, a 150 gallon tropical fish tank and several honey bee hives.

The tank has numerous large predatory haplochromines, including trout cichlids and hawkbills.

The African cichlid aquarium [photo # 3] contains mainly cichlids from Lake Malawi, as well as a group of clown loaches, including four large ones that have been in the tank from the beginning so are at least 15 years old.