Which african cichlid is this?

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Prince Bren N Lancalot wants to know:


We got it for nothing with a tank and a cuckoo cat! this is a youtube of it! please respond.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s2hgo2CgT8
Ok well as you can see is that it is bluish black, the top fin has an electic yellow stribe and there are several black dots on its body also
But no stripes,
these are also pics of the fish in better light

http://www.osdate.com/fish/fish8.jpg
http://www.osdate.com/fish/fish9.jpg
http://www.osdate.com/fish/fish10.jpg
http://www.osdate.com/fish/fish11.jpg
http://www.osdate.com/fish/fish12.jpg
http://www.osdate.com/fish/fish13.jpg
http://www.osdate.com/fish/fish14.jpg
http://www.osdate.com/fish/fish15.jpg
http://www.osdate.com/fish/fish16.jpg
http://www.osdate.com/fish/fish17.jpg
It was an electric blue hap and an auratus, we have both of those in our tank as well
???????

yes well…its not because its different pics of only one fish
My bad yes that was an auratus,
but we can electric blue’s and i am telling you,that is not one of them, for starters, electric blues are blue, this thing is almost black, electric blues dont have yellow on them at all,if anything they have red and white on they’re fins.

this thing is an enigma,its amazing and ive never seen anything like it.

I agree with the majority ,it is some kind of peacock and if it isnt its some sort of zimbabwe rock cichlid

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7 Comments For This Post

  1. bettachris Says:
    July 24th, 2009 at 12:42 am

    it is extremely hard to tell without a fully colored photo but it is a peacock.

    could be a Sciaenochromis ahli, or electric blue-haplo

    Also it looks like Aulonacara hansbaenschi

    But the coloration in the vid doesnt really allow us to see he full coloration and markings.

  2. ~.C.H.R.I.S.~ Says:
    July 25th, 2009 at 8:55 pm

    Betta Chris would probably be the closest.

    When I first saw it, I thought it was a haplochromis spescies of somesort.

  3. PeeTee Says:
    July 28th, 2009 at 1:37 am

    Definitely Aulonacara sp.

  4. Kyle C Says:
    July 28th, 2009 at 7:40 am

    It was an electric blue hap and an auratus, we have both of those in our tank as well.

  5. pjzalib Says:
    July 28th, 2009 at 10:30 am

    i would say a peacock cichlid 99/100. They have alot of colour variations.

  6. evelynmarch26 Says:
    July 29th, 2009 at 2:46 pm

    It looks like a green face peacock male

    If you want to search further, here are all the profiles

    Hope that helps
    Good luck

    EB

  7. Pat Shepherd Says:
    August 1st, 2009 at 9:26 am

    * He is beautiful! My educated guess is he is a Peacock cichlid!*.

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