Please ID this african cichlid

[slyme]

Could it be a changing auratus? Sounds aggressive like one. The pic could be a poorly colored one in mid change? Females and sub adult males are yellow with black stripes adult males are blue with black stripes.

i thought so, yellow/blue color and black stripes

Is he beeing dominated by other fish?
A lot of non dominant Mbuna males try to look like a female so they are not being attacked by the alpha male

He is dominating in the tank (to smaller fishes than him)

Finally last night he show his true identity hahaha...
and thats right my thought, he's johanii.
I will update the photos by the way.

 

[ThePickens]

i thought so, yellow/blue color and black stripes

He is dominating in the tank (to smaller fishes than him)

Finally last night he show his true identity hahaha...
and thats right my thought, he's johanii.
I will update the photos by the way.

 

[ThePickens]

my daughter and I have been wondering the same thing with this fish. On it's dominant days it tends to show yellow on it's fins

 

[Magnus_Bane]

my daughter and I have been wondering the same thing with this fish. On it's dominant days it tends to show yellow on it's fins

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The first pic you started out with really reminded me of my ex-roommates "johanni" that he bought a long time ago. Extremely aggressive, ugly brown color, bright blue horizontal stripes. Mean lil fish, only fish that were meaner was the female convicts in the tank. However his fish would change to a dark chocolate brown color with black horizontal stripes rather then getting better looking like yours did. Honestly from what I've found out over the years is don't trust the pet store to be 100% accurate with proper ID. Lol I once bought a "female dwarf gourami" just to end up finding out it was actually a baby giant gourami instead.