Steveni Taiwan Reef

A week ago I traded 1large deep water hap and a large dolphin head for a tri of steveni's(1male at about 7inches w/awsome color and 2females at about 5-6inches) What are the pro's and cons for these fish? My first time owning them and I am kinda excited. They are in a 60gl where they will stay. Was this a good trade?

yeah even trade. they are cool fish and not different than anyother malawi for the most part. congratz!!!

i would like to get a set of these myself, great looking fish

PICS FOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Beautiful fish, just try to keep them speperate, I haven't had very good luck keeping them with other fish. Another plus is that they seem to have a lot of fry 40-50.

[quote="jjpizano"]Beautiful fish, just try to keep them speperate, I haven't had very good luck keeping them with other fish. Another plus is that they seem to have a lot of fry 40-50.[/quote
yea, they spawned a few days after this post and one of the females spit a few days ago. Must have 60-75 easy. The other female is holding now.

Pics!

I wonder why he would trade them? Were they proven breeders? Sometimes adults will stop at a late age.

heres the male and one of the females.


The reason was he had about 100 fry growing out and wanted to try something new. I believe he went all vic's.

dam!!! pretty nice colors on im!

I'd say the deal could go either way depending if you value spawning the taiwan or colorful males. If it were me I'd go with the big hap Electra and dolphins cause I have no interest spawning Taiwans.