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are diverse and serve as models for understanding and a number of other biological phenomena. Took me a couple of years to be able to do this, but I'm pleased with the outcome.

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2021-05-22

MerMay (Flowerchild Cichlid). When you can't process the message the universe delivered to you. Peace ya'll
Purchase this poster and more here: https://t.co/nC0Qt0HKxB

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2021-05-21

Labeotropheus trewavasae, or Trewavas' cichlid, is a rock scraping cichlid native to Lake Malawi in Africa. Lots of work being done with them to help us understand plasticity and adaptive radiations!

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2021-05-20

Childcare can be tough no matter your species - just ask the mouthbrooding cichlid moms!

Females of several cichlid species hold their developing young inside their mouths until they hatch, making feeding impossible - so Mom may go without eating for weeks

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2021-05-09

New artwork @ https://t.co/ldZb5wMx7w
Red Diamond Betta, Red Empress African Cichlid, Red Slenden

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2021-05-08

are wonderfully diverse, despite being a relatively young family of Don't forget that, as a renaming and rebranding celebration, I'm offering 20% off on all of my for the next few weeks.

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2021-05-02

Here's another Lake Malawi cichlid. It happens to be a fish that actually likes 😉.

All jokes aside, here is Sciaenochromis fryeri, an 'electric blue hap' (whatever that means these days...). https://t.co/vCCvjdTWMQ

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2021-04-29

Yesterday's "something new" was Petrotilapia sp. It'll be up on my website, and in my store, within the next couple hours. Also had a bit of fun with the face 🙂. If I can figure out the species, I'll update.

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2021-04-21

This week's plays dead and is a mouthbrooder: Livingston's cichlid. This particular species is native to Lake Malawi in Africa. It seems to play dead to lure in prey, and then quickly snaps it up!

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2021-04-04

The colors on Xenotilapia are striking and were fun to paint. I illustrated these cichlids for research by Fabrizia Ronco and the Salzburger lab. https://t.co/3CIsO0lQnY

If you need illustrations and for your research, feel free to contact me at https://t.co/4VY0tFhM38

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2021-02-22

A bright Electric yellow cichlid for today's fish sketch!
Electric yellows are one of the most popular cichlids in the Australian ornamental industry, growing to only 8cm and are relatively cheap to purchase. Keep them with other African cichlids for a lively community tank!

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2021-02-18

SR: Paradigma 「Fregata」, Ratcatcher 「Sula Nebouxii」, Singer 「Pearl Cichlide」, Poet 「Sunny Shore」

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2021-02-13

If I may offer my two cents.. I present the Cockatoo Dwarf Cichlid, Mandarinfish, and Angelfish 🤲

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2020-12-23

Happy 5th of Dec and day 5 of On this day, I gift you all the majestic Caquetia spectabilis, a South American cichlid known for extreme jaw protrusion.

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2020-12-06

An old that fits this week's theme of "Fish that live inside other animals" - many species of cichlids are maternal mouthbrooders, meaning baby cichlids live in their mom's mouth until they are big enough to avoid predators!

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2020-10-19

New Burt's Blog post! Some short research stories from Toni and the Geaux Girl Fish Power group!
https://t.co/DYoDeOx7Xu

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2020-09-17

For this I chose to do further research on an unknown cichlid. This is the Blunthead Chimba Red. Tropheus moorii is endemic to Africa’s Lake Tanganyika. 40 different color morphs are dispersed throughout the lake, ranging from dark green to flame red and yellow.

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2020-09-14

For today's here's Neolamprologus brichardi: a from Lake Tanganyika named in honor of pioneer Pierre Brichard (1921-1990). N.brichardi is a rare ex. of cooperative breeding in fishes (helper individuals take care of other's offspring).

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2020-09-07