Can you ID my fishes please?
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The first pic is one of the Nimbochromis species, maybe venustus, maybe linnelli, but its hard to tell when young. They start out like yours, and my linnelli below
But if they are male, when they first mature (at about 4"-5"), end up like this
But if they are male, when they first mature (at about 4"-5"), end up like this
I agree with the first fish being some species of Nimbochromis,probably a polystigma or fuscotaneatus.Nimbochromis linnii has a different head shape than the others in the group and venustus has a lot of yellow in it's body and fins.
Oh yeah,the other fish is some type of mbuna,Melanochromis I think and it is the smaller growing of the two...not sure if you are aware or not but they are both African cichlids.I used to be heavily into them years ago.
Oh yeah,Nimbochromis livingstonii I forgot about that one....it's been a while lol but I guess I got the Melanochromis auratus right though.
could be just realize they are crazy agrressive espicially the auratus. You need to keep them with other mbuna cichlids and also they are herbivores.