Protomelas similis & A. fire fish questions

[fishkeeper01]

While the origin of the firefish, strawberry, or dragonsblod is a mystery to me and most in the hobby...as far as I know I've never heard the mbuna theory...

Here's an interesting chart I came across awhile back.

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Do you remember the website you got this from?

 

[dogofwar]

http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=1372

While the origin of the firefish, strawberry, or dragonsblod is a mystery to me and most in the hobby...as far as I know I've never heard the mbuna theory...

Here's an interesting chart I came across awhile back.

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[chiroken]

Your link is to OB peacocks and I don't think there is any doubt OB's have mbuna. No mention of fire fish at all on the previous page where this link comes from

http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=1372

 

[dogofwar]

Firefish I think are descended from OB peacocks...but who knows. Hybrids all the same, so it really doesn't matter.

Matt

 

[Spartacus]

I was unaware fire fish have any mbuna, that is a first I've heard of it. Which mbuna? I've heard the OB's having mbuna. If anything I've heard there might be Protomelas in there with fire fish. And if so, then technically a hybrid versus line bred. He was basing peacock allocation by body colour. He was saying peacocks aren't red! He had a few ruby reds, poorly coloured, in his tank and I had to point them out to him, they were not the same fish as the fire fish. He was completely mixed up in what he was saying. Technically you are correct w.r.t Aulonocara. Our biggest supplier here in Canada had what I ordered as "Protomelas sp. fire fish".

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[timbo6684]

Do you remember the website you got this from?

I think I pulled it from a Facebook group, I'm unsure where it originally came from.

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[timbo6684]

Your link is to OB peacocks and I don't think there is any doubt OB's have mbuna. No mention of fire fish at all on the previous page where this link comes from

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[Spartacus]

there is definitely no o.b.in Firefish,although there is in mine