This video is 3 minutes long and you can see the many interesting fish I keep.  Red Zebra's (Met. Estrea) are my favorite.  The Demasoni are certainly no beginner level fish.  They are just too aggressive in nature.  I read how people who have them get tired of them.  I can certainly sympathize because they never stop chasing one another.   With this My rock work had been re decorated  the beginning of Feb 08 due to a neighbor giving me an overly aggressive Red Zebra.  I traded it for one Demasoni.  I had to take most of the rocks out just to catch a single fish.  I opted to put some new rocks in.  I ended up with a great looking set up with out much thought going in to the re-arranging of the aquarium rocks.   I would have to say I am not limited in my selection of rocks to choose from.   I choose a lot of smaller rocks this time rather then larger rocks.

                  The fish I grew up to this point have all been a journey.  One of the memories I have is sitting in the Papasan Chair was witnessing an unfortunate meal of a yellow lab.  A lab went for a pellet and so did a Demasoni.  The Demasoni ended up with the lab in it's mouth and instantly what happened next was the whole community of Mbuna's devoured the Yellow Lab.   It goes to show the wild in these fish and the unpredictability they have.   I am not with out exception the aggresiveness of Mbuna's just because I have an abundance of rock work in the aquarium.  I have a Red Zebra who's fin's are eaten up from the nip and run the Demasoni do as well as a O.B. Red Zebra named "Blotchy".  Blotchy is one we are proud of because one day we came home in the evening and he was shredded pretty good.  He's lost some fins on the permanent  basis.    I didn't see this damage occur, but I speculate a blue and black  fish did this.  I don't want to accuse any one fish as it's innocent until proven guilty is the law we live in.  

                  Probably a few months after the Demasoni grew they started to breed.  On and Off we'd see some female holding eggs.  We at times would see one or 2 fry swimming.  We would see them for a couple weeks and maybe even 3 weeks.  They always stayed at the top and I always thought that was odd due to feeding time it becomes an increased risk of  instant death.   The breeding stopped and has stopped for  months.  I speculate the water temperature during the summer was too warm.  Probably 3 months ago we had a survivor Demasoni we named Darby.  We named him Darby because of the cautious nature he displayed.  Darby didn't venture from the rock he was hiding in.  We didn't even know he existed until I saw him briefly enough to process the information it was a survivor.  About 3 weeks later Darby was large enough to start venturing from rock to rock, then he was swimming among all the other fish.   I had concern as he was small enough to be a meal and that Yellow Lab unfortunate death was on the fore front of my mind.   I am proud to say that Darby is still with us and swimming strong.  He's a survivor.  Currently I have one Demasoni holding.  I don't strip my fish as you can imagine what efforts I have to go through to catch them.

Rock ON everyone!