Need Fish ID Help! Please!

[jbcs80]

The pics aren't the best. I'll try to get some clearer ones later if needed. Thanks!

 

[derekp]

Looks like a cobalt blue african cichlid, but his colors are still dull. Did you just buy him? If so, that might be why his colors aren't bright yet.

 

[jbcs80]

I've had her for a while. She's always been a bit dull. Here's a few other pics. From the research I'ce done the body seems very similar to pseudotropheus socolofi. The males are usually more brighter than the female. Thanks for all the help!
John

 

[Coler]

Is it the same fish in all the pics ? Or ID required on 'em all ?

Because I see one very much looking like a cobalt zebra...and then some more lol.

I'll move this to rift lake because they are certainly malawis at any rate.

 

[jbcs80]

Well, There are three fish. I thought they were the same. The dull one is a female and the other two are the brighter blue fish. The last pic has a 4th fish which I wasn't really referring to, but I'm not 100% sure what he is so he could be a bonus to find out I guess! Thanks for all the help.

 

[efors]

Hi!
I'm confused with which are the 3 different fishes to ID. But the blue fish on pic #7 of post #3, really looks like a cobalt blue zebra (Metriaclima callainos).

 

[petluvr]

^^^AGREED

 

[jbcs80]

ok. After looking at pics of the cobalt blue zebra I agree. Thanks for all the help on that one. I'm still unsure of the dull one which I thought was the same breed. The pics in this post are all of her. Any thoughts? Thanks for all the comments.

 

[Joanne_3131]

I have been trying to identify this fish, which looks a lot like one of the pictures above (it is also at the bottom of this post) could it be a cobalt blue also? It morphs it's colors according to it's mood, gets so light it blends with my giant danios and then gets really dark in color when it's hiding in a cave or it's dark out.

These are pictures of the same fish, it looks very dark in a couple of these but it is a quick change artist and goes from really light exactly like this picture from jbcs80 above:

 

[Joanne_3131]

Not sure why the pictures didn't imbed into this post, obviously doing something wrong! Will try again:

and the one posted by the original poster: