ID these fish?

congrats on actually getting ID's, My thread still has no replies. its why I never come here anymore


Frontosa is a carnivore and does best on higher protein diets, the rest of your fish are Mbuna.
Yellow lab, Orange zebra, Acei and labeotropheus trevawasae (can't spell)

Nice selection and range of color! Front will do fine on a veggie diet with a few meaty foods thrown in from time to time, but he won't thrive. THey are better with america cichlids dietwise. But hey you should be fine if you feed NLS thats a good midway food for all range of africans

I have a mixed bunch of cichlids in my tank theyre all tiny and its a 120 gallon.
7 Labeotropheus x zebra hybrids of some kind (blotched, with orange blue and gray)
4 yellow labs
4 kenyi 1m 3f (yellow male, bright blue females)
3 Greshakei (one albino, 2 purplish colored)
1 Johanni (musty light bluish yellow, its still maturing)
1 unknown (blue and black with a windowed páttern)
1 metriaclima callainos (bright ice blue)
2 fryeri (electric blue haps)
1 borleyi kadango (red head and blue body)
2 OB peacock mbuna hybrid
1 milomo


and 5 white skirt tetras for aggression dispersal

It sounds like a lot I know but in a 120 you could have 30+ Mbuna. they really like to be overcrowded and it helps curb aggression, so the more the merrier. which is funny because its the exact opposite of other fish. I have a good mix of color and aggression levels. My fish all get on great right now and Although the mix is pretty random I SHOULD be okay because so far my kenyi male isnt an *******, and they can be the worst when dominant.

with your selection you want to stick to other low to medium aggression cichlids like Socolofi, Zebras that come in red blue or anywhere inbetween, or you could push up the numbers of the fish you already have, get a whole bunch more labeotropheus, zebras or electric yellowlabs. More acei is usually good too, they are very social.

all in all you have a nice mix and you should be able to get a lot of color from them.

and yeah this forums really only most active for american cichlids and monster fish, most african keepers will use other sites. Also i stopped posting here cause a guy was being an ******* to me at every turn and the moderators never did anything so i just went elsewhere, which is a shame cause this sites awesome, just a shame when some people ruin it.

They already have electric blue Ahli and electric blue Johanni that could go with your fish just fine and have that same color. I have heard of many people who are unfamiliar of the difference between american and african cichlids that have kept JDs with africans. You could try it and could be succesful, but Electric blues are very weak and a lot less aggressive, the africans might be able to bully them or kill them easily. I have however seen some pretty feisty EBJDs too.

its your call but the EBJD could just be kept solo in a small tank otherwise.

Female Kenyi, demasoni (pure evil unless 10+) Socolofi, Metriaclima Callainos, Scianchromis fryeri, Cyrtacara Moorii are all Africans you could keep in there that have bright blue coloration or black and blue