The Brevis Shelldweller is easy to moderate to care for as long as regular water changes are done to keep water at optimal levels. They need a sandy or very fine gravel substrate.
brevis is a carnivorous eater and should be given lots of meaty foods. Try not to feed too many dry foods especially to wild caught specimens. They love live daphnia and live brine shrimp, which they would very much appreciate as an ocasional treat.
Neolamprologus brevis Cape Chaitika
Origin and locale/variety: Wide distribution, Lake Tanganyika, East Africa. Geographical varieties within the lake are just beginning to be identified.
Poecilia helleri, Xiphophorus brevis, Xiphophorus guentheri, Xiphophorus guntheri, Xiphophorus heller, Xiphophorus helleri brevis, Xiphophorus helleri helleri, Xiphophorus helleri strigatus, Xiphophorus hellerii guentheri, Xiphophorus jalapae, ...
L. brevispinis is a social fish which should be kept in a small group, but with enough hiding places, at least one for every fish. Single specimens are very shy.
Suggested Tankmates ...
Neolamprongus Brevis
by radharc/karkis.canit.se (Mike Noreen) (15 Oct 95)
Julies or Shell Dwellers
by jluckshire/aol.com (Jluckshire) (19 Nov 1997)
Tanganyican Snail Shells for breeding..
by jluckshire/aol.com (Jluckshire) (24 Nov 1997) ...
Melanochromis brevis is a short snouted, deep bodied fish with a color pattern that features vertical bars on the flanks. Tends to hide in caves and crevices.
Neolamprologus brevis/multifasciatus: Those both are egglayers that reproduce inside empty shells laying on the sandy bottom. (See "fast facts" sheet on the latter).
Neolamprologus brevis by George Wright
Summary: Keeping and breeding this shell dwelling cichlid from Lake Tanganyika.
Neolamprologus brichardi by Robert Brown
Summary: Keeping and breeding this Lake Tanganyika cichlid.
SYN : Mollienisiahelleri , Xiphophorus brevis , X. jalapae , X. rachovii , X. strigatus
PD : The Swordtail is an elongated species with a slender body. Males possess a characteristic, sword-like appendage formed by the lower rays of the caudal fin.
brevis, which has adapted to deal with the sparse shells in its regions by sharing a shell with its mate, may have nothing more in terns of decorations than a few shells, a nice layer of sand, and perhaps a rock to mark the territorial boundary.
brevispinis Holly, 1927
B. brichardi Poll and Lambert, 1959
B. bynni (Forsskål, 1775)
B. cadenati Daget, 1962
B. calidus Barnard, 1938
B. callensis Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1842
B. callipterus Boulenger, 1907 -- clipper barb
B.
Apistogramma brevis
Apistogramma cacatuoides
Apistogramma commbrae
Apistogramma eunotus
Apistogramma gibbiceps
Apistogramma hoignei
Apistogramma hongsloi
Apistogramma linkei
Apistogramma macmasteri
Apistogramma nijsseni ...
Synonyms: Molliniesia helleri, Xiphophorus jalapae,Xiphophorus rachovii,Xiphophorus strigatus,Xiphophorus brevis,Xiphophorus helleri helleri,Xiphophorus helleri brevis,Xiphophorus helleri strigatus
First European import: Germany, 1909, by W. Schroot.
Gymnodenium breve (now called Karenia brevis ) produces the so called 'red tide' which causes the death of many fish and shellfish. The responsible toxin, brevetoxin, also causes respiratory irritation to humans when aerosolized.
The species currently assigned temporarily to Lamprologus include: brevis, callipterus, calliurus, caudopunctatus, finalimas, leloupi (not leleupi!), multifasciatus, ocellatus, ornatipinnis, similis, speciosus, stappersi (meleagris) and wauthioni.
Brevibora takes its name from the Latin brevis ("short") and -bora [from Rasbora] and refers to the fewer (8-9) predorsal vertebrae in this fish. The subject species, B. dorsiocellata, is the type species and currently the only species in the genus.
 See also: Fish, Species, Water, Cichlid, Aquarium
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