Need ID please

[Mr Cracker2u]

bad pic but this guy comes from Lake Victoria. Got it at a LFS it was an unidentified stragler. It's growing fast and has a no BS temperment. Great fish but I got no idea what it is and it won't sit still for a good pic.

 

[bal]

boy this is tough, cant see the anal fin, which would greatly help...and i cant tell if the fish's shape is foreshortened, making him appear stubby shaped..yanno?
hubby's best guess would be this one:

Pseudocrenilabrus multicolor victoriae
seem examples here:
http://www.african-cichlid.com/victoriae.htm


its really difficult to id, because one needs age approx, because some change colors even more dramatically than some salt water fish do...from juvie on up they can go through several color morphs..
also because fright patterns can change them dramatically too

 

[mike dunagan]

and blurry pic...lol

 

[ikevi]

And here I was going more towards something like Astatotilapia calliptera, though eh on the black fins. (Though i don't know if they are fully black when they aren't presenting there colors.)

I can say that I am fairly certain it is from Lake Victoria...

 

[Mr Cracker2u]

Pseudocrenilabrus multicolor victoriae
Nope. I will look for a better pic. I have had this fish since august and it's growing as fast as the jack dempsey I brought home a month later.

 

[bal]

hmmmm okay how about Astatotilapia burtoni?

 

[tydus]

That's what it is. A Haplochromis/Astatotilapia Burtoni. Here is a pic to compare

 

[Mr Cracker2u]

I think that the one
got any info on them such as size and nastiness???

 

[bal]

this should give you a lot of needed info.....there not hard at all, we havent owned any in a while:
http://www.africancichlids.net/articles/astatotilapia_burtoni/

 

[Mr Cracker2u]

Thanks for the ID guys. Much appreciated. Merry X-Mass to you and yours!!!!