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Title: pls help i.d
Post by: nick on August 17, 2006, 12:33:31 PM

hey everyone, recently got some nice looking lake malawi cichlids, i dont what fish is what, i know the electric yellow and thats it, i dont know wat the others are so if you could please help me i.d them it would be great, i tried google but it only had pics of adults and i cant tell.

thnx nick

[img:ee3f6ee5ed]http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/flanka_06/Lake%20Malawi/ummm.jpg[/img:ee3f6ee5ed]

i thought that the both of these are electric blues but i paid for 6 different species....its got me stumped, are they the same?
[img:ee3f6ee5ed]http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/flanka_06/Lake%20Malawi/same.jpg[/img:ee3f6ee5ed]

i think this is an exasperatus...not sure
[img:ee3f6ee5ed]http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/flanka_06/Lake%20Malawi/exasperatus3.jpg[/img:ee3f6ee5ed]

hongi??
[img:ee3f6ee5ed]http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/flanka_06/Lake%20Malawi/hongi.jpg[/img:ee3f6ee5ed]

also thought i would throw in this funny pic of the yellow, he is hiding
[img:ee3f6ee5ed]http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/flanka_06/Lake%20Malawi/peek-a-boo.jpg[/img:ee3f6ee5ed]

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Post by: madtat on August 17, 2006, 01:01:13 PM

first pic middle fish is a colbolt blue
second pic fish at front at the bottum is a peacock and fish above is a electric blue
fourth pic is a hongi
and a clown loach

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Post by: nick on August 17, 2006, 01:26:49 PM

thnx madtat, thats not wat i bought them as, the shopkeeper said i got an exasperatus, a hongi,, a mbamba and electric yellow and electric blue and a pulu point or sumthing and a clow loach

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Post by: nick on August 17, 2006, 02:51:45 PM

ok, i know wat i have now

1 male exasperatus
1 male hongi
1 male mbamba
1 male electric yellow
1 male electric blue
1 male cobolt blue zebra
and clown loach

so now i need to put the species to the fish, once they get bigger it will be easier but, thnx for the i.d but

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Post by: Shrek on August 17, 2006, 03:32:30 PM

Ok
Top pic is Pseudotrophues callainos (Cobalt Blue)
2nd pic top fish Sciaenochromis Fryeri (Electric Blue)
bottom fish Placidochromis Mbamba
3rd melanochromis Joanjohnsonae (exasperatus)
4th Labidochromis sp. Hongi
5th Labidochromis Caeruleus (Electric Yellow)

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Post by: nick on August 17, 2006, 03:46:27 PM

sweet, thnx for the scientific names shrek, now i know wat they all are, that helped heaps

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