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In case you were curious... this is what fish sex looks like. This is my German Red Peacock cichlid pair. The female will go down to the rock, and shake her ass and deposit eggs onto the rock. The male will then come down and shake his ass, and fertilize the eggs. If all goes well, the female will then gather up as many eggs she can in her mouth, and hold them there for the next few weeks. There's multiple males in the tank though, so there's another equal sized OB peacock that wants a piece of the action, and the male GR has to keep chasing him away. Now that I know exactly when they dropped eggs, I can swoop her out of the tank before she spits out the babies, and collect all of them. Something, something, profit!
Again, if there's any friends here interested in starting a Malawi cichlid tank, I'd be happy to help you sometime later with a starter kit of 6-12 juveniles of sexy German Reds, depending on tank size. The absolute best way to start a tank is to add a bunch of them that are all the same size all at one time. That drastically reduces the chance of having one male establish complete dominance and kick every other males ass to the point they don't even show proper color. The more horny equal sized males in there competing at once, the less chance of total dominance. Without overcrowding of course, because that can really stress the fish out. Ideally you'd want multiple males and one/two females. All the males will constantly show great color because nobody is capable of establishing complete dominance, but everybody is horny and competitive.
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