Mbuna ID

[Boose1357]

More than likely going to be a hybrid of some sort. We threw 20 or so Mbuna in a 500g indoor pool over a year ago and they just bread all the time. By the time we drained the pool, their were many varities of Mbuna in their. We sold most but wanted to keep this guy because he is very pretty. So any suggestions on what type of hybrid/zebra complex it might be drop me a line. Or if he might be close to something more pure thatd be cool too. thx again. male grenski sp* hybrid at all perhaps?

 

[Dobsie]

More than likely going to be a hybrid of some sort. We threw 20 or so Mbuna in a 500g indoor pool over a year ago and they just bread all the time. By the time we drained the pool, their were many varities of Mbuna in their. We sold most but wanted to keep this guy because he is very pretty. So any suggestions on what type of hybrid/zebra complex it might be drop me a line. Or if he might be close to something more pure thatd be cool too. thx again. male grenski sp* hybrid at all perhaps?

Did you have any Cynotilapia afras in there? It has a what looks like part of that in him/her.

 

[Dobsie]

Actually it looks like this just a lighter shade.

http://www.tropicalfishandaquariums.com/AfricanCichlids/ZebraBluePhoto1.asp

 

[why_spyder]

More than likely going to be a hybrid of some sort. We threw 20 or so Mbuna in a 500g indoor pool over a year ago and they just bread all the time. By the time we drained the pool, their were many varities of Mbuna in their.

The lineage of this fish could be anything and so figuring out what it really is would probably take DNA testing or something like that. I would just call the fish a hybrid of some sort and call it day because you'll never know for sure - and we can't tell you what it is without even knowing what you threw in there.

It is a nice looking hybrid - keep it, enjoy it, etc., but please don't pass it off as anything other than a hybrid when you're done with it (that is if you don't keep it until it dies).

 

[Nate_N_Nicole]

female Kenyi

 

[we4wieners]

kenyi + hongi = ????

 

[Boose1357]

It is a nice looking hybrid - keep it, enjoy it, etc., but please don't pass it off as anything other than a hybrid when you're done with it (that is if you don't keep it until it dies).

No im sure my LFS will mess that up just fine themselves. Always do.... But im sure my boy aint lettin it go anyways.

 

[Boose1357]

Actually it looks like this just a lighter shade.

http://www.tropicalfishandaquariums.com/AfricanCichlids/ZebraBluePhoto1.asp

Yea could just be the flash making him look so bright. But hes never a dark blue. Sometime practially white at the top beside a hint of sky blue.

 

[Boose1357]

female Kenyi

Seeing as we had no rare or more exotic mbunas in the pool and I know we did have kenyi, ide be willing to go with this.

 

[why_spyder]

Metriaclima lombardoi have a distinct barring pattern which that mbuna lacks.