Need help, is it hormoned?

Hello, I've been building a 55g Auloncara tank and came across a few hormoned fish along the way and was really wondering if I ran into yet another tragic mistake. I got this fish today and dripped him in a bucket where he turned very pale but didn't turn white like my others after a long trip from the fish store, he's vented as a male at about 3" and has astonishing colors. I'm hoping not, but my girlfriend is convinced he is fully hormoned, I know the fish came from lilies tropical fish in Florida because I read it right off the box when the order came in and not sure if anyone has any experience from them, it's a privately owned fish store and I haven't bought any fish from them before, they've got a 2 day return policy so if you guys think its not worth risking the $19 please give me a heads up. Not sure what the fish is but if you can ID it then it would be a great help too! Will post pictures shortly

My current fish list
Lemon jake (2) one is a female
Sulfer head
Ruben red
Eureka jacobfreibergi
Bi-color 500
Regal red shoulder
Electric blue ahli
Sunshine peacock
Red top lwanda
Cuckoo catfish
Zebra obliquiden

A lot of fish especially from Asia that are imported here are fed color enhancing foods which contain hormones that will even make a female peacock display full male colors at 1-2 inch length. The colors on this fish are really vibrant for its age and it seems like its probably fed hormones but I'm not sure 100%, it's my first peacock tank so I'm wondering if other owners experience this color at its size.

It's an african peacock cichlid, Auloncara, not a Mbuna, and he's a 3inch fish that's probably brighter than my 4 inch dominant Aulonocara jacobfreibergi, I know it means its under a lot of stress when it turns pale but hormoned fish don't lose any color under any circumstances from my experience until it wears off, so it's very difficult to tell. I've gotten 2.5 inch fish that were glowing when I first started the tank but had no idea what these color enhancements were prior, so I feel overly cautious.

Yeah I'm holding them for my friend who's currently moving, they're not staying in there for long

Update: fish was pooping white musucs which I guess was the intestinal lining so I returned it and randomly died overnight. I also asked why half of the fish were gone, the were because of deaths, not sales...