Talk:Neolamprologus brichardi

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[edit] 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)