need a fish identity.. i need help

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bill109

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hello
i am wanting to set up a african cichlid tank and already have one that i got one an accident..
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ID?!
also i am new so go easy on me..:)
what must i do to make a good tank for him? also what can i mix with this fish?
thanks for your time...
it is GREATLY appreciated..

-bill
 
peacock... not sure which one though...
 
someone thought it was def a malawi..
any requirements i should know about? slightly salty water at all? sand?
thanks again
 
http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/

click malawi then you can choose any of the peacocks for tankmates and some haps but they get a little big. good hap is the moori or dolphin. check it out. whhat size tank? fiters? i would use crushed coral because it makes water more hard which africans need. dont get mbunas or lake tang fishh
 
It is a malawi peacock. Auloncara species, which one though is hard to tell unless you look at your fish then go through the listing in that link above. That link is a good one for id's. I would guess,cant be sure, but guess a eureka red maybe or one of the stuartgranti species. They look similar. Lots of auloncara to choose from . Have fun. Let us know what you find out and post more pics.
 
right now the fish is in a 20L with a hob filter. im not sure what size tho. i clicked on every photo on that site under lake malawi-peacocks..
 
well a 20 is a littttle smal because im sure when you see the colors on that guy you will want more but like a said 20 is limited. i would look on craigslist for a bigger tank :D hahaa
 
I wouldn't be so quick to jump to the conclusion that that is an aulonocara. Maybe I'm completely wrong, here, but by the vertical bars in the body, and the speckles in the caudal fin (although the fin color doesn't really match up at all), I would say that could probably be a melanochromis species. I don't doubt entirely that it is a peacock, but I see melanochromis more than I see peacock (aside from the fin coloration), but there have been strains bred for fin color in the past (obviously). It just seems to me that the head isn't big enough, nor is the snout pointy enough to be Aulonocara, and the body color just doesn't seem right either. In that case, you would certainly have a narrowed field of choices for tankmates for him, and he would probably be best by himself in a 20-L.
Really hard to say though... I'm about 90/10 Melanochromis/Peacock. For all we know, it could be some Pseudo-Melano-cara hybrid fish... although I don't think it's possible to crossbreed Peacocks with mbuna or other fishes. Nonetheless, he has a little bit of a Pseudotropheus look to him as well.. Sorry to add to the confusion, but he doesn't look like an Aulonocara to me.
 
Melanchromis species have horizontal bars running along the body, not vertical. Any chance at a better quality pic? I think thats what the problem is here...
 
Although the primary bars are horizontal in Melanochromis, exasperatus has vertical bars, along with johanni.... I never said that it was a pure Melanochromis, but I would definitely say that it has the body type of a melanochromis, and not so much that of Aulonocara. Like you said, the picture is somewhat poor quality, but I think I can see some faint horizontal bars going down the lateral lines of that fish.
 
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