I was just wondering if anyone here owned buttikoferi cichlids..Because They are some awsome fish. What were your experiences? All I remember was it was a killer it nearly killed a dovii. I love these fish though, They have funny personalitys!

man, that is just a tilapia... Yeah they are super aggressive though. Raise it then eat it!

Yeah, I wish..lol I'm kidding! Have you kept them?

buttikoferi is tilapia and we have them in cages along the fresh water lakes
and swamp. they were amazing fish and allegedly could reverse their sex to
avoid extinction. i have no proof yet but that was what we were told during
my raising tilapia in cage training.

PAUL wrote:


lol, We are taught very different things at school here.
I would have love to study raising tilapia in cage instead of algebra!

Noddy wrote:

i took the short crash course at the livelihood program of the community.
there different modules like hydroponics; catfish culture; tilapia culture;
goat raising; duck raising; hog raising; and many more. this is how i develop
interest in combining hydroponics and aquaculture that became aquaponics.

I figured that much.
Looks like survival skills you learned to me.
Man, it amazes me how spoiled i've gotten, living in a wealthy country.
Makes me count my blessings over and over.

well, that is life! but those hardship makes me strong and humble in life.
though have not much, i still count all the blessings and good things that
comes along the way. i believe that is what count most

Few years back i raised a buterkoferi. I had him in a 20 gal tank with 2 oscars . all three were raised from couple inches for few years. oscars got up to about 8 1/2 inches or so and the butter smaller at about 7. Even though the oscars were bigger than the butter, the butter was pretty much the boss of the tank. I would witness the butter chasing the oscars around the tank and bullying his two larger tank mates. Amazing fish but aggresive. i would feed them lizards and geckos often, and the butter would try to steal the lizard/ gekcos from the oscars mouth . having a school of these would probably be very cool. i debated on getting a few to put with my current oscars in my 100gal but decided against it, remembering fish fights at 3am, water splashing and such...
My LFS says the sale of these fish is now illegal (but they still have some for sale lol) due to the fact that after time people get rid of them in lakes or rivers and what not, and the butters are taking over fish poplulations in different places. being a very hardy fish, not much can be done to control/lessen popolation of butters; not sure how accurate that info is but sounds reasonable.

buttikoferi is really an sturdy fish. they can thrive in all water conditions
breed easily even in young age. they can breed even at 3 inches size or 4 to
6 months old. the only set back is that brood from young mother do not grow
much like their counterpart from a fully grown parents.