Cichlid ID?

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florencejr11

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I know you guys hate these but I think my LFS had mislabeled a fish I feel like it’s an amphilopus species I just don’t know which one.

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At the age of the juvie in your pix, all Amphilophines will look so similar it will be impossible to determine one species from another.
An example the juvies below
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You might think, with the way the mouth presents, it could be A labiatus, but as an adult.....it grew into the A amarillo below
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Or....this very pale juvie below
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That grew into, the brown flaveolus below
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At the age of the juvie in your pix, all Amphilophines will look so similar it will be impossible to determine one species from another.
An example the juvies below
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You might think, with the way the mouth presents, it could be A labiatus, but as an adult.....it grew into the A amarillo below
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Or....this very pale juvie below
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That grew into, the brown flaveolus below
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Awesome I never owned any other species outside of Red Devils and Midas so I’m really interested to see what this guy becomes I’ll post in a couple months when he grows
 
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