What is this guy?

[cwt24]

So, I wanted some larger, blue cichlids for my 150, and I got four new fish today, each about 5 inches long. I have no idea what they are, and thought I would try you lovely people.

It was really hard to even get this one picture. The color changes frequently. However, it is always striped. The body has alternating blue and dark blue/black bars, and when he is in full color, from about the midsetion down is a bright, ice blue. The dorsal fin is yellow, but no other part is. I was thinking Yellow Fin Mbamba, but there is no black on the fins.

Any thoughts?

 

[excuzzzeme]

could be a Hap, Demasoni's cichlid, midnight peacock, blue ahli, or Pindani - which are all africans or mbunas. Need a better picture.

 

[cwt24]

could be a Hap, Demasoni's cichlid, midnight peacock, blue ahli, or Pindani - which are all africans or mbunas. Need a better picture.

It's deinately not a demasoni, had those before and would know that. Googled those other ones you listed, and none of them look like this.

Simply because I've never seen this coloration before, I'm thinking I might have been sold some kind of hybrid. I dont think it's a peacock, it doesnt have the bone structure of a peacock, and I don't think its an acei, because its striped.

I was thinking it might be a hybrid of a blue zebra and an acei maybe, but who knows.

 

[efors]

Hi!
I don't know exactly what he is, but I am sure he is not an acei or a peacock. Not a demasoni or a Pindani neither. Maybe a Metriaclima zebra.

 

[cwt24]

Hi!
I don't know exactly what he is, but I am sure he is not an acei or a peacock. Not a demasoni or a Pindani neither. Maybe a Metriaclima zebra.

Thats what i was hoping they would be. However, the metriaclima solution doesnt explain the yellow finnage.

 

[cwt24]

Here is a slightly better picture of him. He hardly ever stops moving, and apparently my shutter speed is much slower than I originally thought!

 

[Coler]

Hmmmm can't see pics.

 

[Pittbull]

it looks to be an cynotilapia afra poss jalo reef species

 

[efors]

it looks to be an cynotilapia afra poss jalo reef species

Looks like it, pittbull; but, can a Cyno reach 5 inches long?

 

[YoFishboy]

I think it's a Red Top Zebra, now called sub genus Metriaclima the current name of what use to be Pseudotropheus red top zebra. There are variants in the lake. This one might be Metriaclima emmiltos.