Red Top Mabuna?

SphericalCube · Dec 27, 2006

N-E CICHLIDS;610274; said:
It's possible that it is a Perspicax Orange Cap, but more than likely it is a "Metriaclima pyrsonotos" a.k.a. Red Top Zebra, since it came from a LFS.

http://www.cichlidforum.com/profiles/species.php?id=1790

I don't think it's either of the names suggested but I do have one just like it. With all the hybrids out there though you never know quite for sure if it's just a mixed cichlid from your LFS.

straitjacketstar · Dec 29, 2006

Scotty;627667; said:
The true red top as I said previously is Met. zebra red top mpanga.

That's an invalid name for M. emmiltos.
I don't know why you would call anything a "true redtop". It's semantics, doesn't make a difference. It would be like arguing that a blue morph L. caeruleus was any "truer" than the popular yellow morph.

Scotty · Dec 29, 2006

With the Lab. caeruleus the "blue morph" is the truer fish, apparently. Will try to find the article I read regarding this. The yellow's are a rather expensive fish to acquire from the Lake compared to other fish. Will pay upwards of $30 for a yellow compared to $12 for other mbuna, wild caughts.
Have a great New Year. :cheers: