Pseudotropheus lelupi?

Andy16

Andy16

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I bought a fish under the name of Psuedotropheus lelupi at my lfs a while ago. My tank is a malawain mbuna tank. when i did a search for it on the internet all i could find was a different lelupi from lake taganyika. was the fish store name wrong or is there a fish named pseudotropheus lelupi?
 
it is not yellow or cyndrilical. All i could find was a lamprologus leleupi. it was from lake tanganyika and it was the only type of leleupi i could find. It looks like my mbuna tank has got a tanganyikan cichlid in it. O well. Thanks for the help:)
 
What does this fish look like because Neolamprologus leluepi from Lake Tanganyika are yellow and cylindrical. This is what N. leluepi look like http://www.tanganyikan-cichlids.co.uk/Articles/Lelupiss.htm.
There are different varieties but all are pretty similar, click on the more pictures in the lower right hand corner to see if yours may be a variety.
 
Brownish silverish with black stripes? Hmm...are you sure it's African, though that's what it sounds like, and I'm betting it's Malawian, just cause most things are. It's definantly mislabeled. Perhaps it's a Pseudotropheus crabro, the bumblebee. That's the only Pseudo I could think of that would fit that description, though the kennyi, Pseudotropheus lombardoi, could fit the bill. Can you give us more of a description, body length, height, aggressiveness, hell, even how much you paid for him, that could narrow it down.
 
It was 7.00. It is not agressive and only about 2 inches long. The body is not elongated. It has a sort of beak looking mouth. and it is actually blackish silverish with black stripes. It has a black dorsal fin with a white top.
 
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