what type of fish are these?

[austinsheeler]

hey guys. I have bought these african cichlids and one fish kept killing a lot of my fish and i lost track of what fish is what kind. Can anyone tell me what kind of fish these are and also where they are from and if they will get along with each other? tank has been set up for awhile now and the killer fish is gone. he was rusty in color and was cheap. like 5 bucks. dont know what his problem was. anyway tank is 75 gallons. there are 13 fish in it right now. looking to get a few more for some breeding maybe. heres a few pics


also not in pics is a yellow lab and a red zebra that im sure of.

 

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Post some pics

 

[austinsheeler]

sorry my computer is having issues uploading photos all the sudden

 

[austinsheeler]

ok so these are only 2 of the fish i just gave extra pics for clarity

 

[austinsheeler]

i think this is a damasoni? and not sure of the other one

 

[austinsheeler]

sand the last one is a plecko of some sort

 

[austinsheeler]

first one here is what i call a parrot fish? i think. and theres a brown fish which i have no idea. the 3rd one the guy i bought it from called it a peacock. and the last one thats blueish is supposed to be an albino.

 

[austinsheeler]

last 2 fish are mahybe black zebra and i forget what the black and white striped one is called.

 

[Andrew McFadden]

ok so these are only 2 of the fish i just gave extra pics for clarity

The first one one is an electric blue hap the second is a bumbble bee.

 

[Andrew McFadden]

sand the last one is a plecko of some sort

The first one here I'm not sure about the second is a libidochromis perlmut and the last you know

 

[Andrew McFadden]

last 2 fish are mahybe black zebra and i forget what the black and white striped one is called.

The first one I'm not 100% on but it ma be a white tail acei and the last one is a front..


The brown one you mentioned is probably a rusty but I'd need to see a picture

 

[austinsheeler]

i think the first one you werent sure of is a damasoni? does that sound right? hes pretty small still. he has a slow growth rate. he was about and inch maybe inch and a half at the same time i got the bumblebee and they were the same size. now the bumble bee is 4 inches about and the damasoni is 2 inches tops. and thanks a lot this helps. do you know if these fish are compatable with each other? they all seem to get along but someone mentioned on here i may run into problems in the future.

 

[Andrew McFadden]

i think the first one you werent sure of is a damasoni? does that sound right? hes pretty small still. he has a slow growth rate. he was about and inch maybe inch and a half at the same time i got the bumblebee and they were the same size. now the bumble bee is 4 inches about and the damasoni is 2 inches tops. and thanks a lot this helps. do you know if these fish are compatable with each other? they all seem to get along but someone mentioned on here i may run into problems in the future.

What size tank is this

 

[austinsheeler]

the blue colored fish that was albino is a kobalt zebra. and the list i have from the fish i have bought is. Aratus, damasoni, frontosa, and hmoori. Like i said though i had a killer fish so im not 100% on which is which or even if some of those names were killed. Frontosa is maybe the one thats black and white stripes with large brain head?

 

[Andrew McFadden]

the blue colored fish that was albino is a kobalt zebra. and the list i have from the fish i have bought is. Aratus, damasoni, frontosa, and hmoori. Like i said though i had a killer fish so im not 100% on which is which or even if some of those names were killed. Frontosa is maybe the one thats black and white stripes with large brain head?

The cobalt is the light blue one. The big humped head one with the black stripes is a frontosa. There is something about that blue one that threw me off but demasoni is what my guess would have been.

 

[Andrew McFadden]

first one here is what i call a parrot fish? i think. and theres a brown fish which i have no idea. the 3rd one the guy i bought it from called it a peacock. and the last one thats blueish is supposed to be an albino.

the last one here is probably the moori the first one in this list is a ice blue

 

[austinsheeler]

awesome. yea its hard to take pics of moving fish. especially when i spook them every time i try to pull out the phone for a pic. the brown one i most curious about. I had a rusty and he was like a burnt orange color. and he was the killer fish i had gotten and returned. this one is like a flat brown. i can try n get another pic if you want. she was sick recently and is still recovering. so her tail isnt all grown back yet but shes doing better.

Tank is a 75 gal.

 

[Andrew McFadden]

awesome. yea its hard to take pics of moving fish. especially when i spook them every time i try to pull out the phone for a pic. the brown one i most curious about. I had a rusty and he was like a burnt orange color. and he was the killer fish i had gotten and returned. this one is like a flat brown. i can try n get another pic if you want. she was sick recently and is still recovering. so her tail isnt all grown back yet but shes doing better.

Tank is a 75 gal.

Yea I don't think that's a rusty. A rusty looks like that but they should have a little purple like tint on them. They can be very aggressive. I had one that killed a few before till someone laid him out.

In all reality a lot of those fish shouldn't be in that size tank so problems are going to keep arising. Check this
http://www.aquariumadvice.com/lake-malawi-mbuna-stocking-dcor-hardware/

 

[austinsheeler]

here she is. she has some striping. i feel like she is some sort of a mix breed. i bought her from a pet shop where i got all the others though.

 

[austinsheeler]

ok i think i got most of them now. Can you tell me again which one is the one thats all blue and he has the pinkish fins hes big. is he a moori? or and ice blue? and is the peacock one thats red and black and blue what is that? and the last one is the black one with a white stripe on the tips of his fins? is this a black zebra?