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AndiPants

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So my bf picked up some cichlids the other day, they just came out a mixed tank- I believe they are mbuna, not sure though. Any ideas on what these guys are?

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Oii

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looks like a kenyi to me, don't know though. I really really hate africans.
 

AndiPants

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yeah, I was kind of thinking thats what the last pic may be.... they are supposed to get pretty aggressive, right?
 

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First pic looks like a blue socoloffi... I don't think the last pic is a Kenyi. I have a male kenyi and hes a golden yellow color with brownish yellow stripes...yours doesn't look like that. Females are a light bluish purple with the darker colored stripes...doesn't look like that either. Not sure what it could be but I'm like 95% sure the first is a socoloffi.
 

AndiPants

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thanks for replies! pretty sure it is a socolofi and the kenyi, compared to other juv pics I have seen, these guys seem to match pretty well.

Any ideas on the middle picture? That one is stumping me...He/she is mostly black, but has an blue shine to him as well, and he also has verticle stripes...
 

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Don't think the first is a socolofi, although the pics are blurry - body shape, head and colouration are wrong. I'd say its a hybrid of some kind, with some socolofi in it.

The other two pics are likewise a bit blurry but don't look like kenyi to me - again, hybrids, especially as they came out of a mixed african tank.

the white guy in the second pic - can't see his head; that orange colouration may be an albino pseudotropheus macropthalsmus though.
 
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