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CichlidKeeper01 · Jan 12, 2019

Stephen St.Clair said:
Initially he only had hints of blue on his face. The body was mostly light brown, but his dorsal fin had a strong white edging.

Ok, thanks

CichlidKeeper01 · Jan 12, 2019

RD. said:
It does not look like a pure Sciaenochromis fryeri to me.

And to echo what James said, it appears to be grossly overfed.

Thanks, dropped feeding down. Thought I was feeding too much anyway

RD. · Jan 12, 2019

Post back when/if it decides to color up more. Or at least once it has settled in more.

neutrino · Jan 17, 2019

Looks female to me. If I had to guess I'd suspect some dimidiochromis in there, but could be camera angle or distortion of body shape from being way overfed. I kept Malawi cichlids for years and my experience was sometimes you get an individual pig that gets way too fat even when the tank isn't overfed. Eventually it gets them sick, pretty much never fails, so what I did was separate them from the main tank and restrict their food way down until they looked normal or even slightly thin, then put them back. One such treatment would cure some of overeating, others would take more than one visit to the 'fat farm' and then they'd be cured. Pretty rare ime that a few such treatments didn't get them over being such pigs, but if not I had multiple tanks and for their own good they'd permanently go to a tank that wasn't fed much.

CichlidKeeper01 · Sep 20, 2019

Thought I would update this thread. Fish still has not shown any changes in coloration. To me he looks like a dimidiochromis hybrid, but I am not sure.