Opps I did it again? LFS mixed tank picks? ID question

[Adam GR]

Hello everyone
Please have a look on those 2 guys picked from my local shop and help me guess the ID.
One is probably venustus but the other one seems harder to guess.
Mayby eye biter??

 

[tlindsey]

Hello everyone
Please have a look on those 2 guys picked from my local shop and help me guess the ID.
One is probably venustus but the other one seems harder to guess.
Mayby eye biter??
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Stephen St.Clair
J james88
D deeda

 

[Gourami Swami]

One is venustus
the other is another predatory hap, looks more like champsochromis than dimidochromis to me, but I am not sure tbh.

 

[james99]

The larger one looks like something mixed with dimidiochromis compressiceps.

 

[Adam GR]

Just a quick question about Venustus
Here is my:

He have quite a lot ‘black’ colour. His belly and fins are almost fully black. On picks found on internet usually belly and fins are yellow.
Interestingly there is another venustus in my LFS and he looks pretty different to my.

Iam a little confused, is it normal to them to look so differently??

 

[deeda]

It might be a Nimbochromis livingstonii or a cross.

 

[Magnus_Bane]

It might be a Nimbochromis livingstonii or a cross.

I'd agree,. Most likely a livingstonni or a cross. They can sometimes be a lil difficult to ID, as at a young age livingstonni and venustus look very similar untill the start to come into their specie's color. I'd say the one at the LFS still, is a male venustus as it's starting to come into it's mature male coloration.

 

[Stephen St.Clair]

I think the pictured Venustus's color change has more to do with mood, rather than a link to hybridization.

 

[Adam GR]

I think the pictured Venustus's color change has more to do with mood, rather than a link to hybridization.

I think you are right. Now more often I see this fish in this dress:

 

[Adam GR]

I think the pictured Venustus's color change has more to do with mood, rather than a link to hybridization.

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Do you think this little bit of a blue shine can be a sign of a male?