View Full Version : What is this fish?
crazydaisylou
11-28-2007, 9:35 PM
Hopefully someone can tell me. I tried searching on the net, and I got Blue Mbuna, but when I did a search on Blue Mbuna, none of the fish that came up were the same as this one. Not even close.
Hopefully the link works for you.
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=74849722&albumID=863101&imageID=16758638
Thanks
cichlidsrextrem
11-28-2007, 9:49 PM
idk id try helping u but the myspace link is messed up or something lol srry
The Zigman
11-28-2007, 10:04 PM
For those unable ot see the picture.
Lupin
11-29-2007, 12:04 AM
It looks like a hybrid to me. A lot of Lake Malawi cichlids can really crossbreed with each other.
tarheels910
11-29-2007, 3:08 PM
Could be an average OB Peacock (Male). They are hybrids, but are accepted in the hobby.
Also, if you look at the snout/mouth shape is almost looks to be some sort of hap. Maybe a hybrid between a hap and mbuna or hap and peacock.
Male Orange Blotch (I gather Orange Blossom is the term in the states) Aulonocara (Peacock).
As noted above by tarheels, a little by hap(py lol I kill myself) around the snout - not unusual with OB Peacocks which are hybrids to start with.
nice fish too :)
crazydaisylou
11-29-2007, 9:14 PM
thanks for all the replies. I like to read up on my fish, and it's kinda hard to do when you don't know what the fish is. :huh:
Do you think my convicts will kill him? :thud: I had a bumblebee in with the convicts and they killed him, so I'm kinda afraid to put him in the tank with them. I tried to get rid of them, but none of the LFS would take them, and no one on freecycle wanted them either. :cry:
Thanks
Daisy <----- :screwy:
Phil22
11-29-2007, 9:23 PM
Great looking fish!...whatever it is...
kay-bee
11-29-2007, 11:00 PM
...I had a bumblebee in with the convicts and they killed him...
Out of curiousity how large was the bumblee at the time of that incident (bumblebees get fairly large, 7inches, and are aggressive in their own right, was it a small one?).
crazydaisylou
11-30-2007, 5:32 AM
The bumblebee was the same size as the convicts. I got both of them when they were small. They were in the tank together since Jan.(?) maybe feb., and both of them were still really small when I got them, maybe a couple of months old. I came home from work the one day, and the bumblebee was still swimming around, chasing one of my plecos, and two hours later his eyes and fins were going and he was definitely dead. I had an oscar before that the convicts killed. the oscar was twice as big as them at the time, too.
silentskream
11-30-2007, 11:07 AM
its normally not a good idea to mix africans with new world cichlids (like convicts) aand now you know why.
anyway, peacocks and haps are pretty touch, so he could probably hold his own with them.
crazydaisylou
11-30-2007, 4:27 PM
is there anything that you know of that can actually survive with the convicts besides other convicts? (besides plecos and my catfish, too)
my brother has had his tank as long as me, although not as big of a tank, and he's somehow keep alive two convicts, a bumble bee, a blue johannii, and a jewel all in the same tank.
silentskream
11-30-2007, 4:38 PM
most medium sized new world cichlids can hold their own with convicts. firemouths, severums, parrots.. that kind of thing.
crazydaisylou
12-03-2007, 9:13 PM
He is definitely an aggressive fish. I didn't work today so I decided to put him in to see how he does with the convicts, and he wasn't in 30 seconds before him and one of the white convicts were lip locked, or as my dad likes to put it, "kissing." So I took him back out.
Lady Ns
12-09-2007, 1:07 AM
He looks like and Electric Blue cross to me. Would explain the colouring and it defending itself from the Convicts. Not a very large cichlid and rather peacful, but defends itself quite well.
crazydaisylou
12-12-2007, 8:03 PM
I found a fish called a Fuelleborni Cichlid, Orange Blossom. Do you think it could be this instead of a peacock cichlid? The first link is the Fuelleborni, with the info, and the second link has picture of both of the fish at the bottom of the page.
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=1991
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/scateg.cfm?pCatId=1825
Thanks
Daisy <~~~~~:screwy:
tarheels910
12-13-2007, 3:03 PM
No. It is not an OB Fulleborni or Zebra. The body shape is totally different. Also since it is an Blotched Aulonocara, it will have a metallic sheen over its body. (Because its a male)
crazydaisylou
12-13-2007, 7:51 PM
ok. thanks. Just wanted to see if that could be a possibility.
Thanks
Daisy <~~~~~ :screwy: