Need help IDing two new cichlids

wandat

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I have 4 total malawian cichilds. Two I am 95% sure are Red Zebras (one albino). I am wondering if that is right (the albino I got in a little fishstore that had a kid working there that amazed me with the fact he knew what h was talking about, and was told was a albino red zebra, maybe a male one and my other one is more'n likely a female) Anywho here are the pics.

The first two is of a stripped one (may be a Kenyi?)::
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/wandat25/new2-.jpg
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/wandat25/56369a52.jpg

Then two of my Red Zebra::
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/wandat25/red.jpg
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/wandat25/edc0d4e3.jpg

One of the Albino::
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/wandat25/albino.jpg

And, one of the newer one I haven't a clue what is::
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/wandat25/new1.jpg

Thank you for any help you may be able to give me *twirlysmi
 

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I think you got the Kenyi right on the first one.

The Albino, not to sure...hard to ID. Possibly a Red Top Albino Pseudotropheus ______ fill in the blank? It has marks horizontal on the face, which leads me to believe its not an Albino Zebra. The UnIDable on, the 4th one, is 100% a Red Zebra. The 2nd looks like a Red Zebra also, can't be sure though. Good color on it.
 

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Thank you for the reply. I have all four of them together in a tank (29 g for now, moving to a 40 within a couple months). They all seam to be getting along really good. I wasn't sure of what they was, except the dark red zebra. I ID'd her by looking through pictures. Been lucky enough to do that on most all our fish, we're not sure of. We have 6 tanks total. We'd gotten the lil red one about a month or so ago, and wanted a friend for her. The petshop told us she could be put in with the Albino they had. The boy that worked there said he could be a red zebra, but knew if not they could go together. They had faught ALOT, so we put her into our 55 for a while, Then I got to looking and read that any Lake Malawi cichild could be housed together. The Kenyi and the lighter red zebra we got at Wal-Mart yesterday (we haven't had any trouble with Wal-Mart fish, in a year of buying them there). When we put all together they was fine after about an hour.
The Kenyi seams to stay to himself (I say him, cause of the blue on his fins). The rest swim all over. At first the Kenyi and the Albino was kissing, but just for the first hour or so until we got more caves in there. We're fixing to upgrade our smaller tanks and move a 6 inch Oscar into our 55 and these 4 babies into his long 40. (we have a 55 community, 29 com, 29 with the cichlids, 10 with guppies snails and shrimp <for our catfish and loaches, the guppies are my babies though lol>, a 40 with the oscar, and a 5 with feeder fry.) I think they should be fine in 40 for a while after get them moved. Pretty sure the Oscar will be ok in the 55 for a while, then gonna try and find a longer perhapse 70-85 gallon tank for him.
Thanks again for the help.