Help me ID my new fish

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tcarswell

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I got all these Cichlids at a local store blowout (2 bucks a piece) I know they are Africans but the signs just said various African Cichlids. Could you guys please get me the names of my species I feel like a total idiot so I don't need that reiterated. :banhim:
Please specify the pics by the number they are in order from 1 at the top

Thanks all ,
Tcarswell
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Thanks everyone
 
Hey it looks like you have some nice fish on your hands, the bright yellow ones are called "yellow labs" (i cant spell worth a #%$% so please dont be upset by me not typing the latin derivitive) the blue fish looks to be a "Socolofi" and the orange fish on your last picture looks to be a "Red Zebra"
 
I missed one, the yellow and black striped fish appears to be an "Avruetus"
 
yeah the yellow ones are yellow labs i think the blue and yellow ones with a black stripe on the dorsal are pseudotropheus tropheops i believe the striprd one is a julidochromis ornatus and the orange ones a pseudotropheus zebra and is the store that labeld them name petsmart? lol
 
Yeah thats the store. I quarantined them no worries they are happy with their new found space. THANK you guys for the IDs, They are having a great time eating spirulina and NLS their colors have really come out since I got them
 
Jaybird1;2825063; said:
I missed one, the yellow and black striped fish appears to be an "Avruetus"
Which yellow and black striped fish ?
 
In picture 6 on the bottom left hand corner there is a yellow fish with a black stripe, this I belive a Auratus.
 
#1 blue ? yellow might be a Pseudotropheus saulosi, but they are usually more orange
#2 yellow with black in the fins = Labidochromis caeruleus "yellow". young yellow labs don't have black in the fins in the beginning so the bright yellow ones could also be yellow labs
#3 Melanochromis auratus
#4 ?
$5 the zebra could be a Metriaclima lombardoi (Kenyi)
#6 ?
#7 see the above names
 
Pics 1 2 and 4 are pindani(p. socolofi) , yellow lab(l.caeruleus) , and the more orange colored fish in 1 and 2 with the eggspot could be m.estherae. The pindani being the light blue one with the black edging on the fins , and the lab being the yellow colored fish with the black edging. Pic 3 is m.auratus. Pic 5 has a kenyi(m.lombardoi) , the blue one with the vertical bands ,and the one nipping at that ones tail could possibly be another kenyi as well.In pic 7 the top back left fish appears to be a yellow tail acei(pseudotropheus sp. acei).
 
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