ID these african cichlids

[African(cichlids)]

Can someone ID these afr. cichlids

 

[jus1time]

you have to get better pics than that if you want a good id. its really hard to make them out.

 

[kay-bee]

Given the resolution of the photo's the cichlids appear to be a pseudotropheus sp. acei (Msuli)/yellow tail acei, and metriaclima lombardoi (Kenyi).

 

[African(cichlids)]

lol im sorry for the quality but the fish was moving

 

[African(cichlids)]

thanks for the id kay-bee, ill try to get better pics

 

[kay-bee]

The one that looks like an acei appears to be mouthbrooding.

 

[Brian_Indiana]

I would agree with Kay-Bee's IDs

 

[African(cichlids)]

The one that looks like an acei appears to be mouthbrooding.

it would have to have a mate though?

 

[African(cichlids)]

Which lake do these afr. cichlids come from?

 

[kay-bee]

They're definately mbuna's so they originate from Lake Malawi (one of the east african Rift Lakes).

Ideally, african cichlids will seek out and breed with their own kind but when their own species is absent in the aquarium they may take the opportunity to hybridize (producing fertile hybrids) with other species (the odds of this occuring, however, depends on several variables).

Also a possibility: sometimes females will release their eggs and moutbrood them (unfertilized) kind of like a ghost spawning. In this scenario the eggs go bad within 3 days and female will ingest or disgard them.