there colors are washed out right there becuase of my photo skills but they kinda look a Pseudotropheus_lombardoi right?
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jloos1988;1307779; said:
Not at all.
The pattern of M. lombardoi is quite obvious when blue and still quite apparent when going yellow. The pattern is never blotchy or horizontal at any time of M. lombardoi's transition as it is in your fish.
They are hybrids and most likely M. johannii x auratus. Yellow/brown or yellow/black with a horizontal pattern can be seen in both of these species when young and retain the coloration as females. I would expect males to go something of a brown/blue pattern as they mature. No guarantee they well be pretty but interesting nonetheless.
On a side note, since everyone else skipped it...the yellow one is a hybrid too. Lab/estherae cross, way too common these days and sold as yellow labs in every store I've been to recently.
I am astounded by the ease with which you call just about anything you see a "HYBRID"
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For a start, How long are the fish in question? Secondly they are not a cross auratus anything and are most definitely not anything remotely lombardoi.
With the Aulonocara and Haplochromis species you will find the juveniles looking fairly similar when still quite small, under 3-4cms. It is only at this stage that you can start telling what they might be, remembering that most of the females tend to look very much alike.
Try and buy fish that have the correct scientific name listed then you won't have to get these ridiculous replies.
.For a start, How long are the fish in question? Secondly they are not a cross auratus anything and are most definitely not anything remotely lombardoi.
With the Aulonocara and Haplochromis species you will find the juveniles looking fairly similar when still quite small, under 3-4cms. It is only at this stage that you can start telling what they might be, remembering that most of the females tend to look very much alike.
Try and buy fish that have the correct scientific name listed then you won't have to get these ridiculous replies.
hahah go scotttyyyy....they're prolly just under an inch in length right now and when i bought them, i bought them only as "african fry" hence why im trying to figure out theyre ID's
The yellow are not labs, and most likely they are salousi or yes scotty here I go a hybrid... The gray as scotty has stated are most likely some hap, not aulonocara. Haps at nicer stores in my area are hitting the market in much more varitey as of late. I would guess you have gotten some off spring of some early comers. OF course the type or quality or even purity is unknown when buying unknown fry, wait and see...
Scotty;1311122; said:I am astounded by the ease with which you call just about anything you see a "HYBRID"
For a start, How long are the fish in question? Secondly they are not a cross auratus anything and are most definitely not anything remotely lombardoi.
With the Aulonocara and Haplochromis species you will find the juveniles looking fairly similar when still quite small, under 3-4cms. It is only at this stage that you can start telling what they might be, remembering that most of the females tend to look very much alike.
Try and buy fish that have the correct scientific name listed then you won't have to get these ridiculous replies.
I am astounded as to how you never cease to make yourself seem less ignorant and arrogant. The fact that you, a very self proclaimed "expert", would think that this fish
is Haplochromine is laughable. They look nothing like any 1" Aulonocara species. They may resemble a few of the Protomelas sp. in pattern but the fact that they are quite obviously mbuna kinda hampers the stretch for that as a positive ID.
Why don't you go back to the hole you've crawled out of. No one missed your pompous ass.
mike, I have to politely diagree with you as to the likelihood of the "yellow labs" being P. saulosi.
They do look like labs in overall shape and color but are missing black markings where the black markings should be. In one of the pix I can see a faint black strip of the dorsal. Almost enough to tempt me to think they might simply be poorly bred labs, but I do agree with Miss Sinister in them. In all likelihood, linebred "all yellow labs".
I can see what you are talking about in the not being a saulosi, but, I still think it is most likely a mixed mutt ie. hybrid... I was suggesting another route to look at other than lab, but I did say it is most likely a hybrid... good to see ya around again straitjacketstar
