Fish ID please

[Charris718]

Need help identifying this fish. It was sold to me as a Fenestratus but I think it looks more like a juvenile Red Empress.

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[C L O W N K N I F E]

It looks like a protomelas taeniolatus "red empress" female

 

[Charris718]

Thanks a lot. But as we speak the fish is currently coloring back up. I got him out of a tank labeled fenestratus and it was the dominant fish in the tank the and best colored at blue and red. Put it in my 55 with haps peacocks and mbuna and he lost his color with all those adult fish. It's now in my juvenile all male peacock/hap tank and it's getting it's color back.


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[cant009]

Nice. Hopefully he looks really good in your tank

 

[Redbellypiranha]

red empress female

 

[Stratoquarius]

I think one thing we are all sure of is that this fish isnt a fenestratus

 

[cant009]

I think one thing we are all sure of is that this fish isnt a fenestratus

lolol

 

[cichlid_ man]

there is a masssive chance that this is not a red empress you would have to see it coloured up to id it that is like seeing a peacock female and saying its a red rubin because there more common then the other varients

 

[Charris718]

So then what else could it be?


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[cichlid_ man]

prettymuch every thing in the protomelas family