slayer72
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Anyone had experience with P. socolofi? I love the look of the fish, information on the web is all over the place. Can they cross breed with P. Crabro? I certainly don't want that.
Socolofi's aren't any more predispositioned to hybridize than any other mbuna species. As a monomorphic powder blue species there are few mbuna species that resemble them. Keeping them or the other mbuna's in breeding groups should deter most crossings.
On an 'aggression scale' of 1 to 5 (with 5 being the highest) I'd rate socolofi's as a solid 3.5. They're well equipped to dominate nearly any non-melanochromis or non-metriaclima species (or pseudotropheus species equal to or smaller than them in size), and the one's I had were on they're way to being flashy bullies if my zebra's didn't put them in check.