Fish ID please!! :)

[SBee]

I THINK I know what kind of fish this is.....but I want everyone else's opinion before I say what I think!!

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It's about 1.5 - 2 inches right now. The verticle bars are more contrasting in person.

thanks!

 

[jimbo]

Perhaps Labidochromis Perlmutt ??

 

[ChilDawg]

From the pix I can find of the Perlmutt, it looks a little too intensely colored, but definitely looks to be a Labidochromis spp.

 

[Jinks]

seems a bit narrow.. bit of a dif. shape.

 

[Jinks]

whats the difference between labido's and psuedos?

From what i can tell this fish is a Pseudotropheus Elgonatus sp. Mbamba.

i dunno!

http://www.c-u-w.net/fische/pseudotropheus_elongatus_sp_mbamba.htm

 

[ChilDawg]

That looks to be about right.

 

[Jinks]

heh about. We dont know for sure.. It looked MORE pseudo in the store.. it changed colours a lot when we took it home!

Would it be a real problem if it really is labido?? We have 4 Yellow labs in the tank already.. along with a bunch of pseudos, and a cynotilapia hehe.. a big orgy of fish!

 

[ChilDawg]

Might be for the best to remove it, then...

 

[SBee]

why?

 

[ChilDawg]

The threat of hybridization. If you're not going to sell any of the fry under any certain name, though, then it would be an okay thing to do to have them all in the same tank.