Cichlids Identification - Please Help

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nagukush

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Hi Friends !

Just wanted to request some guidance / advice, if there's any website where I can identify Cichlids with pitures. Actually I saw a few Cichlids at an LFS and I want to know what those are...

Kindly help...
Thanks !
Kush

p.s On was a bright striking lemon yellow with a black lining on its dorsal fin's edge - any ideas on what it is ? Kindly guide me...
 
Yes, I guess its the Electric Yellow Labidochromis - I saw about 6 4" Fishes and I just fell in love with them - I wish I could keep them with my Fronts...
 
excuzzzeme said:
Labidochromis caeruleus I am breeding these.
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Hi there !

Thanks for the reply - Wow thats great !!! Just wanted to request you if you can kindly guide me a little about these fishes - The ones that are in the store are about 4" - Are they very aggressive at this age ? Will they harm my 3" frontosas ? I really want to keep them with the frontosas, but I'm afraid of the fact that they may kill my fronts...

It will be a great help if you can kindly guide me a little...

Regards
Kush
 
nagukush said:
Hi Friends !

Just wanted to request some guidance / advice, if there's any website where I can identify Cichlids with pitures.
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Here is a great site with pictures of Cichlid ID's.

As far as keeping Yellow Labs with Fronts? IDK? I don't have any experience with the Frontosa's, but Labs are a rather peaceful Cichlid. I don't think they will bother them, but you never know for sure until you try.
 
Yellow labs aren't a very aggressive mbuna species (at least toward non-labidochromis species), but they're still mbuna's and males can be quite aggressive with each other at times.

They typically max out at 4" or slightly more (though I have on rare occasions seen hubabs which appeared 6") so the one's you're seeing may be considered fully matured specimens.

How they will interact with your frontosa's may be hard to predict. They may completely ignore them (focusing their attention on each other) or may intimidate your frontosas (the labs may outcompete them during feeding time, especially since your front's are still reclusive).

One thing to understand with african cichlid aggression is that is is 'relative'. So while as a species l. caeruleus isn't a very aggressive species per se, it will be the the aggressive species when kept with juvie fronts. Just something to consider.

Now, a separate electric yellow lab species tank would be excellent.
 
So I guess I should not be buying the Yellow Labs...Anyways, just in case if I decide to try them out - should I be buying the whole group of 6 Labs or only a pair or so ? I wanted to see them breed but will the fronts and labs interfere with each others breeding ?

I also thought that my fronts may start taking food after seeing the labs eat fishfood - is there a chance of this happening?

Kindly advice...
 
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