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here's a pic of my new Polleni, I'll try to get some better shots. Does anybody know whether it's a male or female?
posted by: Bryan Simmons

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Dec 24th, 2007
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matty c » posted 2007/12/24 - 18:53
still young , i had a female polleni they can be aggressive, mine used to bully my female jag, i think it could be female
Bryan Simmons » posted 2007/12/24 - 18:57
well I hope it gets aggressive, it couldn't hold it's own in my tank with my red devil and mayan devils so I put it with my kigoma frontosa for now and seems to be doing well so far...
matty c » posted 2007/12/24 - 19:30  
i dont think it will ever match mayans and r/devils ,mine only bullied the jag until the jag became the same size then it returned the bullying back
THE chuck » posted 2007/12/24 - 19:41
Roger Hopper » posted 2007/12/24 - 19:42
bip_ 4u » posted 2007/12/24 - 19:44
Tang O' » posted 2007/12/24 - 20:25
i wish yours was more black, but still a pretty fish
matty c » posted 2007/12/24 - 21:43  
it should be ok with frontosa's its a madagascan fish , they have opposite colour reactions to american cichlids i.e when they get angry american cichlids think they're being nice, and when they're being nice your mayans think they want a fight
Alex Odesit » posted 2007/12/24 - 21:50  
Matty did his homework. I agreed.
I also agree that Polleni is not overly aggressive fish, they are more show off (not like they have allot of gills to flare, lol, but still),it reminds me more Firemouth in it's behavior.
Alex Odesit » posted 2007/12/24 - 21:51  
looks male to me, but not sure
Bryan Simmons » posted 2007/12/24 - 22:09  
well I'll keep you guys posted on it's growth and well being lol and I'm definitely going to try to get more/better pix of this one up it's just really hard to get some of this one because it wants to hide all the time :(
karrie edwards » posted 2007/12/24 - 22:42
John Young » posted 2007/12/24 - 23:22
kyle jackson » posted 2007/12/25 - 01:30
Dan Noon » posted 2007/12/25 - 23:24
Nathan Sederholm » posted 2008/02/13 - 22:36
Gosh I didn't even notice this. Cool. Perfect home then. I'm glad.
Bryan Simmons » posted 2008/02/13 - 22:42
yeah this is an old pic of the polleni I had, but I got rid of it to friend, I'm going to see if I can get it back so the bleekeri will have a friend lol
Nathan Sederholm » posted 2008/02/13 - 22:57  
Be cool. And hopefully they would be male and female.
Bryan Simmons » posted 2008/02/13 - 23:03  
yeah definitely, that would be awesome!

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Latest comments:
Jerry Goebert, 2008-10-07 16:08

Incredible shot. It's like they're posing for you
Jerry Goebert, 2008-10-07 16:03

Interesting....but, yeah, the rock work looks like it'll bust your tank soo
Johnny B, 2008-10-07 16:03

thanks for the info guys
Jerry Goebert, 2008-10-07 16:00

great
karrie edwards, 2008-10-07 15:54

Nice group.
karrie edwards, 2008-10-07 15:53

Very pretty severum, but what happened to his fins? Maybe stress.