My Cichlid pics

[leesst200]

Hi all,

I have posted a link in the gallery section to my fotopic site which I have all my fish pics on.

I could do with a bit of help with the ID of my Cichlids though.
Have a look at my pics and if you can identify any fish, please let me know.
www.fish.fotopic.net

email me direct (purpleronny200@aol.com) or through the sites.

Thanks in advance,
Lee.

 

[-Nemo-]

cool stuff. i like your tank, what did you use for substrate and where did you acquire it?

 

[leesst200]

Hi Nemo,

I used aquarium sand for the substrate. I got it from my local aquatics store. You can get different colours now too. It costs about 10-15gbp per bag of which 3/4 of the bag is in the tank.

 

[n0zqh]

I absolutely love the look that wrecked airplane gives that tank.

 

[Rbishop]

Looks like a very nice tank.

 

[leesst200]

I need to take a few more pics of the tank, not just the fish.
If I have time I will do it later on.

 

[Coler]

nice tank

bubba = cynotilapia afra, perhaps Chewere or Chuanga (http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=1675 or http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=1732) or maybe another variant - check the other pics under afra on those links. In another of his pics he looks like a zebra http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=791

Spot pic is not so clear and I don't know what he is...perhaps another zebra.

Mahony looks like neoloamprologus sexcfasciatus; this variant http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=2241.

Custard - pseudotropheus zebra perhaps.

Wilson looks like pseudotropheus crabro http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=845 in some pics, and a zebra variant in others.

Snap - I don't know. If you disregard the eye bar he also has six bars and that might mean a neolamprologus sexfasciatus variant as well. In the main pic, if that's him in the background, he looks less black and gold and more like a sexfasciatus.

Bill is pseudotropheus elongatus for me http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=855

Bruno is a haplochromine or aulonocara species and looks female to me...perhaps a female aulonocara stuartgranti. In the main tank pic, if he's far left, he looks a little like an aulonocara baenschi.

I find ID'ing fish from pics really hard - so these are just my best guesses and are by no means definitive. Hope it gets you started anyway

 

[mbhw]

Snap - a tilapia buttekoferi - gets huge and mean, should be ok for a while though.

 

[tarheels910]

nice tank

bubba = cynotilapia afra, perhaps Chewere or Chuanga (http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=1675 or http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=1732) or maybe another variant - check the other pics under afra on those links. In another of his pics he looks like a zebra http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=791

Spot pic is not so clear and I don't know what he is...perhaps another zebra.

Mahony looks like neoloamprologus sexcfasciatus; this variant http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=2241.

Custard - pseudotropheus zebra perhaps.

Wilson looks like pseudotropheus crabro http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=845 in some pics, and a zebra variant in others.

Snap - I don't know. If you disregard the eye bar he also has six bars and that might mean a neolamprologus sexfasciatus variant as well. In the main pic, if that's him in the background, he looks less black and gold and more like a sexfasciatus.

Bill is pseudotropheus elongatus for me http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=855

Bruno is a haplochromine or aulonocara species and looks female to me...perhaps a female aulonocara stuartgranti. In the main tank pic, if he's far left, he looks a little like an aulonocara baenschi.

I find ID'ing fish from pics really hard - so these are just my best guesses and are by no means definitive. Hope it gets you started anyway

Nice coler, you got most of them right.

Spot appears to be a female Greshakei.
Custard looks to be a dull male Kenyi/Lombardoi.
Bruno looks to be a stressed Male Borleyi. Seems to have lost all of his color.
As for snap, Hes not from Malawi, and hes not from Tanganyika. He is a Buttikoferi. They get huge and tend to be extremely aggressive. If I were you, I would remove him from this tank.

 

[Coler]

Thanks for the 'snap' ID tarheels - that one was really bugging me.