Where to find Christmas Fulu?

My boyfriend has a 55 gallon African Cichlid tank going and really wants one of these Christmas Fulu's (Xystichochromis phytophagus) We haven't seen any stores in our county. Does anyone happen to know of somewhere in this area that has them available? I would LOVE to get him one for his tank. He loves the colors in them. I just discovered this site on Craigslist. It's great for fish enthusiasts.

I forgot to post a picture. Here it is.

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What area are you in?

Ive been looking to buy some of these also. Let me know.

I have never seen them in stores in washington.... have seen them at the wetspot in portland, (cichlid exchange retail store)....

I myself have recently acquired a breeding group.... I just stripped like 4 eggs, and 6 tiny fry.... so it will be awhile until I can put some up for sale... I know another user on here has a pretty big stock and his are breeding too.... Icer711

Here is my alpha male.... couldnt get him to come out... and he is not really colored up nice cause there is a big sunshine peacock in his tank that kinda became the alpha of the whole tank. ... think Im gonna sell the peacock so the fulu's color up more... anyway, he is a daddy, I have a bunch of his babies and they will be for sale in a few months if you sit tight

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I live in Grays Harbor, near Ocean Shores, Aberdeen, Hoquiam area.

Sandnuka, you are about 2 and a half hours away I can tell by the coloring that this is definitely a Christmas Fulu. Where did you acquire yours at?

He is currently fighting chemical imbalance and is treating his tank so currently getting fish has been put on hold until he can get them under control.

On here actually..... a friend from portland sold me the breeding colony... 1 male 3 females.... Think he got it on aquabid or the wetspot (portland).... there online pretty cheap... think shippin isnt too bad, but they dont gurrantee sex. so you might get a blan female.

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Thank you this is very good to know. I will check out this site. We have a local fish store and they say they can't get these fish in. I'm not sure why though. :\ They are gorgeous fish!

give me some time i have one that just spit some but some are spoken for and it looks like i have one newly holding and i see lots of dancing tonight ... oh and a whole lot closer than sand
and there had to find cause theirs not many people that have them and they are easily mixed up with the........................... crap find it right now but i wanna say its a scraper, the colors are very similar

Big Jim sells xmas fulu fry as well, if you're looking to mail order. I'd leave it to icer or sand to comment on the quality though, since I know nothing of the Victorians.

They are hard to find because they are a Victorian cichlid and most all vics are on the red list.
I would not put one in an African tank, they do best in a species tank with 1-2 males and 5-10 females.
They are commonly confused with the salmons.
Here is my dom male
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My group is already spoken for though, I'm making room for more rare vics.

I got Two females holding now..... I was waiting to get another tank up to strip the eggs, so not sure how many I will have..... probably have them up for sale in about 1 1/2 months.

was thinkin about 7 bucks each. sounds fair?

$7 is good for 1-1.5"

Marysville is about 3 hours away from where I am at unfortunately. However Belfair is only about an hour and a half. Icer I would appreciate it if you could stay in touch with me. I sent you a private message as well. Thank you everyone for your help! I GREATLY appreciate it!

Fern wrote:$7 is good for 1-1.5"

Wow Fern's on here !! Hey Fern !! $7 is definitely very fair. Icer and Sandnuka's came from some of my first spawns from my original trio of one male and two girls and are very nice. In fact so nice sometimes I regret letting them go Not trying to step on anyone's toes but I do have some fry available at about an inch. They grow very fast. They are safe to ship at half an inch. Within the state priority mail is almost always safe and very cheap (under $10) I am in Chehalis FYI. I can't match that great price though as they are limited and I was selling them for $20 each over the summer successfully. I can do $12 each though as I know times is hard........ yo. These originally came from an ebay seller, whom was later confirmed to be a seller and have a good strain by other vic enthusiasts. Great to see you're getting spawns Sand Man and icer!

Oh and just to give him his propers, Big Jim also has top notch Christmas fulu. He is in Northern Cali, but is a pro at shipping. He was one of the main people who brought in some very rare Victorians this year, and I was very proud/lucky to be a part of it with four new species of my own.

Ok.... i lost all my wigglers (barely could see egg sac) to gettin sucked out the egg tumbler agains!!!! I know I have to invest in a better tumbler.... but, icer711 is closer to ya anyway, and he has a bunch of fry coming!

Actually I have gotten in touch with "me" and they are closer yet. They are only about a little over an hour away and they have a good size juvies for the other size of fish in the tank. Thank you everyone. If I know of ANYONE looking for more of these fish I will contact any of you or give them the information for this site and direct them to this thread. I am so greatful for all your help! It is amazing that there are still kind people out there. And ALOT of them on here You guys are all great! Thank you again, I shall hopefully soon be giving my boyfriend his new "presents" and he will love them! New "Kids" for him.

For what it's worth icer, any fulu under an inch would likely be lunch in her tank.

yep i know was trying to find out what size they had before we got very far and was consider thinning out my first batch a little the ratio m/f is a little high awesome colors though thanks again

You're very welcome. What's your current M F ratio Icer? Any recent pics?

about 5/5 or 4/6 i have one im not sure on yet i believe there are 11 had to count big tank and haven't been able to to any good ones with color they know im trying to get one though

Awww you got me all sentimental looking at these guys.

You know because you like to have multiple males I think the high M ratio is likely keeping you from having too many killings. Do you end up with many bit tails? Usually the first sign before a male ends up dead.

They look great btw.

a little no much on the males its lookin more like the females getting it and the small ones... there are way more than that in the tank they were all that came out for the picture... i will be putting more rocks/coral soon so i should get ever more color than i do now

Wish I had some extra females in the 2inch range I could send you. I have a bunch growing out though, so if they don't all sell I'll try and hook you up before I head off to the land of ninjas.

sweetness defiantly let me know there defiantly loving the large tank... and just dont wear black

Hmmm, have you had some black ones? There is a rare morph that can occur where fulu become black. oh wait haha I get it !!!

I can get some Fulu. Anyone interested? I believe around $10 ea. Maybe less. Will find out more, Monday. Let me know.

madness wrote:I can get some Fulu. Anyone interested? I believe around $10 ea. Maybe less. Will find out more, Monday. Let me know.

madness if you can, post some pics here. Vics are probably the most misidentified cichlids out there, so be careful buying them.

I will as soon as I can.

and icer711, post a picture of your tank with all the fulu in there.... I gave you itleast 12..... so plus all of yours im sure it looks pretty awesome.

i did look up lol those are just the ones that wanted to take the picture... but ill be adding more coral soon so i think i will be getting way more color

I meant to say Icer, that's a pretty nice group shot, I know all too well Fulu don't always like to hold still for pics

icer711, where did you post it??? Not in show and tell???

lol scroll up in this thread and i sent it to you... do you need me to post it in the show n tell as well?

Oh... I see it now... Is it just me or is everyone only get a link they have to cut and paste??? cause it doesnt just show your picture in the thread for me???
They look cool all together... And with so many males it looks awesome.... I only had two, and the beta male was definetly not colorin up, so it just looked too blan for me. And after keepin all the rift lakes, I definetly am a lake tang guy.

i have at least 3 nicely colored males in there and several lightly colored ones theirs like 5 males in that picture ... all the little ones got pushed out of the picture big bullies.... you will just have to come by and check them out especially once i start dropping in more coral there will be lots of color

Sandnuka The photos full photos are in the posts for me.

I wonder why I never see pictures in icer711 posts, just get a link.... hmm..... maybe I need a photobucket acct?? oh well, Im smart enough to cut and paste it... just would be nice to just see them in my face...

i dont have a photo bucket acc lol... dump IE and get Mozilla ... i have notice there are time i post stuff i can see if and then later it disappears ... dont know why.... didnt it come though in the PM?

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dang! I see this picture! huge and great quality. but I think you posted in the wrong thread?? it kinda not goin with the conversation.

I cant move it... can delete it, but I will let you copy it over there first.

is there a better way to delete it? or is that it? not see a way for me to unless your going to thanx

there ya go.... its gone.... so back to the subject of christmas fulu! anyone else see any and want to write about it do it in this thread

Here is some more fulu pics
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You really only get that brilliant color when you have more than one male in the tank. I have sense pulled one male and a few females and sold them off, so my male's color sucks now

I was gonna ask about there color.... I had a couple males in the tank, but my male only colored up when it was spawning time.... then lost his color the next day until next spawn.... and they do get really blan if not colored up.

That's the thing with vics, they color when they want to and are dull for the most part. But those colors when they are in full breeding dress makes them well worth it!
My 2 males were only colored up fully for a few days before they tried to kill each other.... now one is in Ohio