Lemon Fish at lfs? WHAT IS IT?!

[TipStylez]

At my lfs i saw a nice looking fish, looks like a chilid but its 1inch big and is yellow and labled Lemon Fish for $3 each...what are these suckers? I might want to get them if the info on them is good.

Thanks
-Q

[f8ldzz]

Sounds like a labidochromis caeruleus, also know as an electric yellow cichlid or lemon yellow cichlid.
So you're right about the cichlid part. :)

[mwood322]

Could also be this -- Lemon Cichlid - Neolamprologus leleupi

http://www.petresources.net/fish/cichlids/neo_lel.html

--Mia

[TipStylez]

Mbuna Cichlids maby?...

[TipStylez]

Yep there Jonny Electric Yellow Mbuna Cichlids.
But my grilfriend got a male and a female one that are about 1" big smallest chilids i ever seen size of my glowlight tetras. And me sitting at home doing research about them knowin their chilids so i wouldnt put them in my community tank. She surprised me with them, so i put them in the tank thinking that they're agressive so il return them tomarrow

Turns out there not and they love swiming with my clownloaches and fallowing my gold gourami and even schooling with my tetras. So im keeping them untill they grow big enough ima get a diffrent tank for them and the loaches.

[f8ldzz]

They max out at around 5".
They will get more aggressive when the get bigger, unless you luck out and have very tame personality fish. :)
I've seen really tiny ones (under 1"!) being sold at Wal*Mart.
I didn't even know they started that small!
My yellow labs just spawned, so I got a trio of super tiny fry swimming around now; you thought 1" was small, these fry was like 1/4" when I found them! :eek:
Most other LFS sell them when they get bigger, like at least 1.5" or so.

[TipStylez]

Im might get 2 electric blue hap from my lfs thats the same size as my electric yellows...gotta do research first to see how these guys will do.

[TipStylez]

NVM...the hap and mbuna wont get along...would make a nice mix tho blue and yellow...