These were sold to me as female johanni but then I was told they are red zebras. Someone else said 1 might be a female johanni but the other is def red zebra. What do u think?
Pic 2 & 3 are the same fish
Pic 2 & 3 are the same fish
kay-bee19 said:They lack the usual 'torpedo' shape of m. johanni and instead have the stockier 'build' of zebra's. Additionally, the fins of at least the first fish have a blue hue, characteristic of a male orange/red morph metriaclima estherae.
I'm guessing they're at least partially metriaclima esterae/red zebra.
Does that last fish have red eyes or is that a result from the camera shot?
CraigMac said:That's what I was afraid of, they don't have the torpedo shape of my male johanni. I think they are either red zebras or red zebra hybrids.
I need to brush up on my ID skills and not take the word of the LFS guys
Malawi Freak said:I've been trying to be able to successfully id cichlids for years and have several Konings books to help. I'm still terrible at it.
garfy said:Haha tell me about it.Ive got dr Herbert axlerod's "the most complete coloured lexicon of cichlids" and there are literally thousands of cichlids in there but still it can be really difficult to id.
Malawi Freak said:I've read reviews on that book and it says he has pictures of every type. Do you like it?