It all depends on the stock someone works with. There are pleanty of hybrid Kenyi on the market. If your using crapy stock you will produce crapy fish. You can find a lot of pic's on the net of Kenyi of questionable lineage . Notice in the first link you can get a nice profile of the head of the fish is a little too narrow for a kenyi
I'm sorry but Kenyi don't change the shape of their stripes as they grow. I too have bred many of Kenyi and also had wild stock for breeders a few different times over the 33 years I been keeping Malawi cichlids. None of the pure Kenyi I ever seen or produced displayed thin pinstripes for bars. To prove my point here are some tiny kenyi fry other people bred, a lot smaller than the OP's fish . Notice how they start off thick at the top of the fish and get narrow and the extend toward the belly. Even if the bars are more even thickness the bars are never that narrow as the OP's fish
http://www.cichlidforums.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/2075/title/half-inch-kenyi-fry/cat/503
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mandris/3196057204/
http://www.myfishtank.net/freshwater-fish/african-cichlids/kenyi-cichlid/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVl0qxr7zqQ
Here are some F1 Kenyi fry and subadults
http://www.duzzee.ca/attachments/photo1_570321_16515.jpg
http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/366547-various-malawi-mubuna-for-sale/
I'm sorry but Kenyi don't change the shape of their stripes as they grow. I too have bred many of Kenyi and also had wild stock for breeders a few different times over the 33 years I been keeping Malawi cichlids. None of the pure Kenyi I ever seen or produced displayed thin pinstripes for bars. To prove my point here are some tiny kenyi fry other people bred, a lot smaller than the OP's fish . Notice how they start off thick at the top of the fish and get narrow and the extend toward the belly. Even if the bars are more even thickness the bars are never that narrow as the OP's fish
http://www.cichlidforums.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/2075/title/half-inch-kenyi-fry/cat/503
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mandris/3196057204/
http://www.myfishtank.net/freshwater-fish/african-cichlids/kenyi-cichlid/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVl0qxr7zqQ
Here are some F1 Kenyi fry and subadults
http://www.duzzee.ca/attachments/photo1_570321_16515.jpg
http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/366547-various-malawi-mubuna-for-sale/
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