Please help identify..

[flutterbye75]

Im new to the cichlid fish and I have inherited a 79G bowfront tank with several cichlids, most of which I know are african and what they are....all except this one.....

 

[lady trish]

Do you have a better picture of it. It could be a compressicep.(maybe!)

 

[fish_breeder_05]

malawi eyebitter. don't worry. captive breed ones (all found at store,they are so easy to breed that they are sometimes called playboy cichlids) lose this trate

 

[fish_breeder_05]

turns out that we typted this at the same time but trish's post was a second quicker than mine. compressicep. is the scientific name for malawi eye bitter.

 

[flutterbye75]

I forgot to add that this fish is silver and black and no color or even tint of color to it

 

[PumaWard]

I don't think that fish is a malawi eye biter...this is one and they appear very different.

 

[kay-bee]

I agree, definately not a malawi eye-biter/dimidiochromis compressiceps. Possibly a subadult Dimidiochromis kiwinge:

http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=1064
(view subadult female pix in drop-down image menu)

 

[~*LuvMyKribs*~]

Yeah for sure not a D. compressiceps.

Raf says it COULD be a Protomelas spec."Spilonotus Tanzania" female or juvi.
Have a look: http://www.malawimayhem.com/profile_show.php?id=380


Or even a hybrid...


-Diana

 

[kayla]

Hey!! That looks like my female red empress! She looks like this..

 

[flutterbye75]

that is exactly what the fish looks like. I am guessing that is a female then. I have two of them exactly the same.