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[paulW]

The light one pictured might be a Labeotropheus fuelleborni. These look a lot like L. Trewavasae, in fact, off the top of my head, I don't know the difference. They both have thick upper lips which allow them to harvest algae off rocks better in the wild. They also both tend to get kind of big bodied for a Mbuna. They are nice fish.

The reason I think it's a fuelleborni, is because I can't recall ever seeing a Trewavasae that blue.. Check out this pict.. it looks a lot like yours.. look at the smaller picture, second from the top, light blue fish http://www.malawicichlids.com/mw09000g.htm

 

[Austin]

other fish are 6 baby haps, 4 yellow labs, 6 clown loaches, 2 pictus cats, 1 spotted dora.
Thinking of added more to spread aggression, would that work?
thanks

Clown loaches are bad tankmates for africans because of water parameter requirements and aggression issues, and haps can have problems with mbuna because of aggresion issues, don't know about the pictus i'm pretty sure they like softer water too. Syndontis multipunctatus is a great cat from the rift lakes that does well with them but any of the syndontis cats will do ok. not trying to dis-hearten, just my $0.02. Welcome to the forum

 

[ragentry]

Thanks for the replys.
to answer above, no one picks on the loaches so far spoken to two other people who have kept them together. the tank has masses of slate and caves which seems to help.
i have recently re arranged the tank to cause more of a visual block from end to end a this has brought the 2 nd L. Trewavasae is now out and about now they have one end each. result!

 

[mike dunagan]

fuelleborni are thicker in the body than trewavasae...

 

[ibr3ak]

Yeah what mike said ^.

Here's a pic of my fuelleborni:

You can definitely see that op's trewavasae is leaner. My lfs sells trewavasae's marked "domwe blue stripe" (or something along those lines), that look exactly like the fish in the first post.

 

[paulW]

Thanks for the education on the diff between the two..