Breeding Question

[cjf]

Does anyone know if a chiwindi male peacock and regal female peacock can breed? I was under the assumption that all peacock's could cross breed.

 

[toddnbecka]

It's probably possible for all Aulonocara to crossbreed, but they typically won't unless there aren't any mates of their own species available. Peacock is a generic term that covers a number of different fish, not all are compatible.

 

[squirrilah fish]

They absolutely can and will cross breed. They are the same species pretty much.
Regal is an Aulonocara stuartgranti mebenji
And the chiwindi is a Aulonocara stuartgranti chiwindi.
Usually cross breeding happens between fish that look similar, but in this case a stuartgranti female is a stuartgranti female. Not a lot of color going on. So I would say definitely yes the could breed.

 

[squirrilah fish]

The "Mebenji" and the "Chiwindi" are the common names of their region in lake malawi I believe. This also includes "ngara" "maleri" "Chilumba" "Chitumba bay"

Different colors, different regions, but all technically Aulonocara stuartgranti.

 

[Freakgecko91]

The name following the species name is the collection point, so yeah, those are where they were collected at

 

[squirrilah fish]

The name following the species name is the collection point, so yeah, those are where they were collected at

Thanks for clearing that up, I wasn't sure. I knew it was something like that.