help identify this Malawi fish

[chiroken]

Hoping someone can identify this fish? I am wondering if it is simply a hybrid, and would you say mbuna? Was at a fellow's house who has to sell all his fish and he has a mix of mbuna and peacocks in a 135g. I am wanting to get his 2 peacocks and a l. trewavassae but I would like to know what this fish is, not willing to just take it on. The 3 I want to take are OB's so I wonder if this is possibly a cross that just developed very little of the orange blotching?

Thanks.

 

[chiroken]

Pics didn't come up and I couldn't find a thread on how to post pics on this forum? I copied the image code from photobucket then pasted in my post. On preview they showed up, now in the actual thread I see "sorry this person moved or deleted this image" for both pics. Is this what you see as well?

 

[ice blue]

I see them just fine. A orange blotch zebra. Just not best quality. And yes it is a mbuna

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[chiroken]

That was my first hunch, have orange zebras in my 90 but the slope of the head seemed off. Maybe that's in the genetics? Mine are more slender too. And weird you see the pics, they don't come up for me.

 

[ice blue]

If I were you I would pass on the zebras

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[chiroken]

I'm in the process of upgrading my 90g to a 300g with 140g sump (gotta reinforce the floor first though!). Plan on finding new homes for all my mbunas and have the big tank a peacock/hap tank. I also have a 55 with some peacocks and a group of yellow labs that will all hopefully go into the 300 as well. As common and 'un-rare' as yellow labs are, I love the colouring of them and I assume they will do fine in the big tank. The dom. male harasses the group but doesn't bother any of the peacocks (only a handful in there).