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SBee
05-26-2003, 5:23 PM
I THINK I know what kind of fish this is.....but I want everyone else's opinion before I say what I think!! :)

Click Here (http://www.stjinks.com/viewer.php?picture=/album/20/20-22.jpg)


It's about 1.5 - 2 inches right now. The verticle bars are more contrasting in person.

thanks!
jimbo
05-26-2003, 5:30 PM
Perhaps Labidochromis Perlmutt ?? ;)
ChilDawg
05-26-2003, 5:39 PM
From the pix I can find of the Perlmutt, it looks a little too intensely colored, but definitely looks to be a Labidochromis spp.
Jinks
05-26-2003, 5:53 PM
seems a bit narrow.. bit of a dif. shape.
Jinks
05-26-2003, 6:06 PM
whats the difference between labido's and psuedos?

From what i can tell this fish is a Pseudotropheus Elgonatus sp. Mbamba.

i dunno!

http://www.c-u-w.net/fische/pseudotropheus_elongatus_sp_mbamba.htm
ChilDawg
05-26-2003, 6:27 PM
That looks to be about right.
Jinks
05-26-2003, 6:33 PM
heh about. :( We dont know for sure.. It looked MORE pseudo in the store.. it changed colours a lot when we took it home!

Would it be a real problem if it really is labido?? We have 4 Yellow labs in the tank already.. along with a bunch of pseudos, and a cynotilapia hehe.. a big orgy of fish!
ChilDawg
05-26-2003, 6:35 PM
Might be for the best to remove it, then...
SBee
05-26-2003, 6:44 PM
why?
ChilDawg
05-26-2003, 6:48 PM
The threat of hybridization. If you're not going to sell any of the fry under any certain name, though, then it would be an okay thing to do to have them all in the same tank.
SBee
05-26-2003, 7:28 PM
fry? sell? we're not breeders! :)
ChilDawg
05-26-2003, 7:39 PM
Well, if you're not into that sort of thing, don't worry about it! :)
SBee
05-26-2003, 8:19 PM
:)

a question anyways though.....do you think it's likely that any of the fish will pair up in such an overstocked tank?

and, how do you tell the difference between a pseudotropheus and a labidochromis?! they look the same to me a lot of the time...

thanks
ChilDawg
05-26-2003, 8:21 PM
There's just a subtle difference that you see once you go through a whole pictorial site on them...I don't know how to explain.

That's true about the pairing up in a crowded tank...it may not happen, and the fry likely wouldn't survive if there were pairing up...