what is this

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From that angle it looks like a young buccochromis sp. or taeniolethrinops sp. But there are quite a few malawi haps that have have a stripe that goes like that and have the yellow running on the bottom half. If you could get a picture whith a side few instead of an angled picture I could probably indentify it for you. I need to see the head and mouth better. By the way welcome to MFK.
 
I dunno if its the angle or what...but it almost looks like a Geo of some kind..? A proper side shot will certainly help.
 
Deffinatly not a geo. It is a malawi hap I can tell that for sure form the pic. But a better one would help identify.
 
Honda12 said:
From that angle it looks like a young buccochromis sp. or taeniolethrinops sp. But there are quite a few malawi haps that have have a stripe that goes like that and have the yellow running on the bottom half. If you could get a picture whith a side few instead of an angled picture I could probably indentify it for you. I need to see the head and mouth better. By the way welcome to MFK.
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i was gonna say buccochromis to but it might be a malawi hawk-aristochromis christi
 
It's not nessarcarily a female fish. Size wasn't specified so it could be a juvinile with female coloration. Deifinatly not an aristochromis, the mouth is totaly different from them.
 
Honda12 said:
It's not nessarcarily a female fish. Size wasn't specified so it could be a juvinile with female coloration. Deifinatly not an aristochromis, the mouth is totaly different from them.
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oh i was going by the black stripe but i see there are plenty other haps with the same stripe lol
 
There are several haps with that single stripe pattern on them as have been mentioned but this one resembles Buccochromis or Taeniolethrinops most. Taeniolethrinops does have a Geophagine quality about them being that the lower jaw lies almost flat against the substrate with the upper jaw curving downward to accomidate it, much like Satanoperca sp.
http://malawicichlids.com/mw08107.htm
At the angle the fish is at, with it's face away from the camera, it's going to be a bit hard to get it narrowed down.
A flat profile shot would be most useful. :grinyes:
 
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