Talk:Neolamprologus brichardi

Social behaviour

In the article it says that the fish are "extremely territorial" and "other adults remain outside the breeding area". Later on it says they "school in large numbers". These can't both be right. My assumption must be that wild fish are schooling animals except when spawning, but in the confines of the aquarium they are territorial and aggressive the rest of the time as well. If this is so, there needs to be a clear demarcation here between normal behaviour and aquarium behaviour. These are not always identical! Cheers, Neale Neale Monks 12:08, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

I've removed all the unreferenced claims and replaced the article with a referenced stub. MidgleyDJ 13:42, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

In both the aquarium and in the wild family groups (spawning pair plus many juviniles) are territorial. In the wild the many families can have territories very close together, forming something like a school, but each family still guards its own small territory.Rlendog (talk) 17:18, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

For those who are also confused by the dichotomy of a territorial schooling fish, these animals have varying behaviours depending on whether at the nesting site or foraging. When away from the nest, these animals inhabit open water areas in sociable groups, searching for food. When they return to their individual breeding or nest sites, the individuals will exhibit strong territorial behaviour over a relatively small radius around the nest site. This permits multiple pairs to nest within a modest area without territories overlapping, and still allows for groups of individuals to associate peacefully outside of their immediate localised territorial ranges. 2A00:23C7:3119:AD01:31CF:B7FD:C84E:BEF7 (talk) 23:38, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

In response to the above

I believe the statement made by the author regarding the "territorial" nature of this species, is in regard to its behavior towards other species. That is why they can school (with each other), but also be very aggressive (towards others). From what I know of this species this is their nature in the wild, as well as in the home aquarium. I cannot at the time prove my theory, but I will attempt to do so. I plan on contacting the author of an article regarding brichardi (noted below) to clarify some of his statements, assuming I get a response I will update you. The original reason I commented was because there is a "citation needed" on the page, and I think the original source was an article written on Cichlid-forum.com. I just started contributing, so I am not sure if I should just add the citation, or if I need to do anything to verify that the author IS indeed the original source. Here is the citation in MLA format... that is what I am familiar with. Harrington, Brett. "Neolamprologus Brichardi." Cichlid-Forum.com. Aquaworks Web Solutions, LLC, n.d. Web. 15 May 2014. <http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/n_brichardi.php>.

--DTVillanova (talk) 18:39, 15 May 2014 (UTC)