Please Help my identify my Mbunas!

[fishkid64]

here is the first one i would like to identify because i have like 6 of them, it is in the top left to middle!

This is a bright orange cichlid that doesn't quite look like a red-zebra

Here is a little Blue one with yellow fins, he's really kind of cute*twirlysmi

I'am not sure if he's the same as the first one, so i put him or her up, this one is still a juvanile

Here is a really cool one that i like, He has a brown blotchy look to him/her

I would really like to know what these are, i've been wondering since i got them!

-thank you very much*BOUNCINGS

 

[fishkid64]

Sinisterkisses where are you lol!

 

[SinisterKisses]

Well...

1. Maybe a juvenile or female greshakei, or possibly juvie/female afra, but likely just a typical M. zebra-type mix.

2. M. estherae, aka red zebra, just a very vibrant one...I think they call them cherry reds or something.

3. Pseudotropheus sp. "Acei"

4. Same sort of thing as No. 1, can't say if it's the same or pure.

5. OB Labeotropheus fuelleborni or trewavasae, I can never tell them apart.

 

[fishkid64]

will number 1 change colors if it is a M. Zebra-type mix?

 

[SinisterKisses]

You'll have to tell me, that's the joy of hybrids.

 

[fishkid64]

all of them aren't hybrids tho right?

 

[SinisterKisses]

Not all of them no, but those 6 you have that look like no. 1 and 3 could likely be, or they may be uncoloured afras or zebra-types.

 

[fishkid64]

alright well i'am excited to see what they will become, but i have heard that many people on this forum don't seem to think hybrid are good

 

[SinisterKisses]

Most serious cichlid keepers don't, no.

 

[marvin]

http://www.fishbase.org/identification/specieslist lol just to quote my sorce...the rusty is on the red list of endangered..