ID please

[Dalfrey86]

I took in a group of fish so they wouldn’t be left for dead, I know a mistake on my part but I couldn’t let the fish suffer.

All I know at this point is that they are either South American or Texan cichlids.

can some one help with the ID?

 

[james99]

2nd pic looks like a red empress, a hap from lake malawi in Africa.

 

[Dalfrey86]

2nd pic looks like a red empress, a hap from lake malawi in Africa.

Wait, you’re saying that’s and African Cichlid?

I sure do feel silly for missing that one.

 

[james99]

Wait, you’re saying that’s and African Cichlid?

I sure do feel silly for missing that one.

Yup, if we're talking about the big blue and red guy. I cant tell what the smaller one below him is.

 

[lp85253]

The bottom pic looks like a washed out rainbow cichlid

 

[Dalfrey86]

I’m thinking I got more of a grab bag of “I dunno” than what I was told. Only bonus is that I got a 2 year old pleco and a smaller pleco.

 

[lp85253]

I’m thinking I got more of a grab bag of “I dunno” than what I was told. Only bonus is that I got a 2 year old pleco and a smaller pleco.

I think that top pic may be a brasiliensis..

 

[Gunfleet]

if we are playing guess the fish, I'll throw my ideas out there.....

pic one looks like a three hybrid Texas types and what could be two small Jewel cichlids.
pic two is a Red Empress Haplochromis, a stressed out Rainbow cichlid and as a complete shot in the dark based on one head on picture ...a Mayan cichlid.
pic three is the stressed out Rainbow and the Hap's butt.

 

[Dalfrey86]

Oh yeah, no denying they are stressed to the hilt. I plan on giving them a week or longer to really settle in and flourish.

 

[duanes]

To me the 1st pi looks like someones attempt at a "red Texas". It's pretty obvious its ancestry is Herichthys, and maybe mixed with some other Central to bring out the red.
Here's an Herichthys to get my drift.

below a member of the Geo braziliensus clade to compare.

and I agree the African is a Protomelas taeniolatus (red empress)
As for the 3rd, the fish is showing a stress pattern, soa few other pics after it gets more comfortable would help, but here are some Herotilapia multispinossa to compare



In the pic above the ones on left and right are "rainbows" the mid is Cichlasoma dimerus.