ID please

[mukundam123]

Any ideas what this is?

It was sold as part of a group of stuartgranti's, which were later ID'd as sp.44 hap. red tail, but I'm not too sure as the females I've seen don't look like this, and it doesnt associate with any of the other sp. 44...

Cheers

 

[Bogwoodbruce]

Looks like an aulunacara species, but usually with females it near impossible to tell species without being told from the supplier or given a collection point.

 

[Bogwoodbruce]

Although it could possible be a female aul. Kongseizi?

 

[mukundam123]

Alrite. no worries mate. any recommendations as to what i should do?

 

[cichlidgirl]

I have a hap and it looks similar to your female posted above. Mine is some form of protomelas. I bought mine as a red empress but have my doubts on the female, the male looks like a empress but its female looks more like yours except mine is all silver (not sure if yours is silver or more tan , its hard to tell in pics sometimes). Mine only shows the vertical bars when it is stressed, see if yours settles in and loses the vertical banding just leaving a broken horizontal stripe down the sides. If so it is likely some form of protomelas like mine is, i never bothered to try to narrow it down on the one i got at home...but can say over all i do like the fish.

I cant find a current pic of her, but i will try to snap one this evening and post it here.

 

[cichlidgirl]

Here is the pic of that female, she is stressed from the camera flash and thinking feeding is coming. You should keep in mind she is holding again when viewing her head/mouth area for comparison.



Here are a couple of their babies in the foreground and mama in the background, notice the broken horizontal stripe and silver color of the juvies. The female is the same color as them and usually looks like them with her markings unless stressed :

Here she is, i noticed some similarity with yours :

Here is her male (the brightly colored one near the large rock cave) he is actually purple when viewed one direction and peach when viewed the other way but the bright blue head is always the same, :

 

[Otherone]

Looks like it might be the Tangerine Tiger

 

[mukundam123]

Thats one nice looking fish mate. Mine does kind of look like your protomelas, but she hasn't got any colour at all, and she's always the same, stripy colour. Im pretty sure shes an alunocara, but no idea which one. I like the look of your male protomelas - red empress right? see if I can get a male n put it in with the female, to see if anything happens.

Cheers

 

[130galcichlid]

could be a Multifasiatus (shell dweller )

 

[130galcichlid]

shell dweller?