Cathy, I would go with a SINGLE demasoni. I know they have a terrible reputation, but keeping a single one would be fine as most of their aggression is shown to their own species or ones that look like them. They have the same general look as a juvenile or female Kenyis, but are less aggressive towards your other species and only reach a max size of 2.5-3" (whereas the kenyi will max out in the 5-5.5" range). Again, one keep one if you do it. Mixing more than one in your size tank will result in deaths.

Thanks you guys for the advice. I will just stick with my plain colors :-)

Yea dizz, I would not get a kenyi. I am suprised they are even getting along with my labs. They actually don't show them much attention at all. I am waiting though until the male kenyi turns yellow. Then I might see the true aggression because both species will be near same color. So far the female is the meanest in the tank because she is the largest at about 3" or so.

Yasher, yea I believe the slate and granite or quartz is going to be quite expensive. I looked in lowes and home depot for some and they only really have counter top ones and they are in the $100's of dollar range. So I stuck with the paving tiles.

lol... i have three tanks with tropheus right now... each has two colonies of 25+ tropheus... i haven't had any loses due to aggression at all...

lol... it's all about distributing thier aggressiveness... if there are three or four, only one will survive... it doesn't matter if it's a pair or trio in the mix... but if you have 6 or more... well when i start a tropheus colony i start off with 6... or depending on the price and availability... so if the petshop has them for 14 bucks each and has 12... i ask them... how much for all of them... if they lower the price to 10-12each i'll take them all...


check out www.duboisi.com they have a bunch of good articles and helpfull people... i used to whore that place up, but it's boring over hither...