IDs, and Breeding Question.
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The yellow fish in the first post is definitely a P. johannii female. The stripes on the socolofi are natural and can come with age or dominence.
I personally dont think its 100% the P. johanii. Ir really doesnt have that bright yellow color, and its horizontal lines just keep getting darker and darker. I think it might be a P. johanii X Melanochromis auratus, it looks like a combination of both but doesnt lean more to either side.
These are some newer pictures, its very pale here because the lights had just been turned on. He/she has a much duller, darker almost brown color. Nothing like those high yellows the other fish have.
It just keeps getting a duller darker color yellowy brown color, and the lines on it are pretty much brown and getting darker. How long usually in these types of fish do they reach maturity? So that I can get a size or time frame of how long to wait to get new pictures, and see if the fish has changed into a definite sex or species..
You could be correct, but at the same time, it looks exactly like the 10 female johannii that I currently have. It looks too large to be a male that just hasn't gone through it's transformation yet, but it could be I suppose.
All of the johannii I've come across have already changed to their gender specific color by the time they are 2". I have 2 adult females 4"+ and 8 juvenile females (under 2.5") that look just like your fish in question.
The first one is a white lab I have quite a few of them. I have noticed that the less dominate ones tend to have grey lines where as the dominate ones are a beautiful white. I have been told to be careful because like yellow labs they will breed with other species. These labs are also not hybrids they are found in the wild but not abundantly. You have to be careful when buy these from fish stores cause often times they are the offspring of yellow and white labs and once a good size look like yellow snow. Mine are very aggressive also so keep an eye on it.
I would love to see pictures! But I think you would know best so I will take your word for it. So its probably a female if it hasnt changed colors by now? I need to go out and get some more and set up some more hides for them.
Oh wow that does look like him! But he is a nice blue color, like a light cobalt color. Not white at all. The pictures on the first page show his lightest color blue he gets. The one on this page was with a flash and after the light had been turned on after being off so he is washed out looking.
He is the dominant fish in the tank right now, and gets the stripes before he chases another fish.
He has the same color as the socolofi, so I dont know..
The blue fish can't be of the Labidochromis genus as it just doesn't have the correct head shape. I'd say that Pseudotropheus socolofi is the best bet for that fish. Here's a few garbage pictures of my johannii... I really need a camera that's not a phone.
My fishes head shape is not the same at all. It looks nothing like those fish. Also its stripe is much thinner, I think its more likely a hybrid because the fish has a similar pattern but the body and head look like a completely different fish..
