ID help possible rescue.....

[CraigMac]

Y neighbor is taking down his tank and has a few fish they need a new home. Can someone ID this fish and tell me anything about it?

 

[joel618]

Tropheus duboisi

 

[garfy]

Tpropheus duboisi or yellow banded tropheus.
A very tough and rugged cichlid from lake Tanganyika.T. duboisi is strictly herbivorous and feeds on algae in the wild and in the aquarium but will take flake,pellets and even live food.It is a quarrelsome fish that should be kept in a 1:4 male to female ratio but they do better in groups of 10 or more.
I would not recommend keeping this fish with Malawi cichlids because of its troublesome nature
However it is a beautiful cichlid in its own right.

 

[CraigMac]

Thanks guys!

 

[kelbaker79]

Tropheus duboisi

+1....that's right on

 

[CraigMac]

The guy getting rid of it said it was a moori, a Dolphin cichlid but when I goggled that it didn't look like it.

 

[garfy]

It is a moorii but not a dolphin.Its from a different lake.

 

[kelbaker79]

The guy getting rid of it said it was a moori, a Dolphin cichlid but when I goggled that it didn't look like it.

It's not a dolphin, for sure...

 

[kay-bee19]

The guy getting rid of it said it was a moori, a Dolphin cichlid....

Malawi blue dolphins are cyrtocara moorii, he associated the species name with the wrong genus.

 

[CraigMac]

Oh, ok. I knew I should check in with you guys to get the facts!

Thanks

 

[Shearer100]

+1....that's right on

Yes def tropheus deboisi lovely fish can be aggressive though