I was wondering if anyone knew where i could find blue Labidochromis caeruleus? The guy at my lfs said he never heard of them.
Blue Labidochromis caeruleus?
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Its not actually blue, its white. I believe its the Labidochromis caeruleus 'Nkhata Bay'.
http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=1667
http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=1667
I have white, and yellow. Someone said Nkhata Bay for the white they are right on. My yellow's are from Lion's cove. She (white) should be spawning again soon also look at my site for albino Labs.
Caeruleus means blue in latin, I wonder why there are no true blue ones out there? Most sites agree with this thread that the blue ones are white/blue.
Just an JYI. Often fish will be called blue something but only have say a white color like in this case. The reason is that the were named by people that saw them through say 10 feet of water, so anything that was white actually looks like a bright blue.
number17Fan;1160144; said:
I've got an older fish book (published prior to the fairly 'recent discovery' of the electric yellow color morph) and labidochromis caeruleus is described as a blue fish (males being 'azure blue' and the females 'grey-blue'). There's a photo of it also and it's really blue (to the extent that it deserves to be (latin) named after the color and has the coloration of a wild type male m. estherae or p. socolofi "blue" instead of white with a blue sheen like the Nhata Bay variant). No mention of what collection point in the book. The photo is of the fish in an apparent aquarium setting so the coloration is not a water depth illusion.
