View Full Version : Can you help identify this fish?
Cichlid Guy
09-03-2003, 7:45 PM
http://www.blackstoneva.com/simplestyle/img/fishpic.jpg
scholar
09-03-2003, 9:12 PM
It is a Pseudetroupheus Crabro . also known as bumble bee cichlid. :)
GoLdFiSh_GrL
09-03-2003, 9:24 PM
Yup! What he said!:D
ChilDawg
09-03-2003, 10:21 PM
I'll throw something of intellectual value into this thread rather than just parrot what another said...Pseudotropheus crabro is infamous for being a parasite of Bagrus meridionalis, the 'Kampango' catfish.
It cleans the fish, but will also change colours and eat the Kampango's eggs before resuming its cleaning colouration...
http://www.scotcat.com/factsheets/bagrus_meridionalis.htm
GoLdFiSh_GrL
09-04-2003, 9:45 PM
lol!
Verse914
09-04-2003, 11:14 PM
thats not a crabro imo. The face is too sharp and the blue linings on the fins. It looks like a Neolamprologus sexfasciatus.
http://www.cichlidae.com/articles/a150/a114-12.jpg
The Crabro (or bumble bee)
http://www.ancistrus.ch/crabro/crabro.jpg
The Neolamprologus sexfasciatus
http://www.cichlidae.com/articles/a200/a158-03.jpg
Marcus
09-05-2003, 10:32 PM
I have to agree with Verse. It's N. sexfaciatus. A lake Tanganyikan fish.
valerie
09-06-2003, 1:32 AM
I agree with Verse also. Its face is too pointy to be a crabro and it has the "blue" highlights on the fins.