Specific name and gender for cichlid?

[Gillie]

O by the way auratus can be hyper aggressive so just a heads, up good to have a few females for it to keep him busy

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+1 I used to call mine the devil fish lol


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[Phillyfan33]

I named mine shadow. He's always lurking around in my rock decoration more than others.

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[Steli89]

It's an auratus. That looks nothing like a Johani. Most likely male but I have seen females in males color so vent to make sure.

 

[Phillyfan33]

And what exactly are these?

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[jllarrea]

Tht looks like a red zebra and a blue cobalt

 

[Cecil2010]

First pick is cobalt blue. The second one kinda looks like a red zebra but it kinda looks like maybe some dragon blood mix. Can you get a better pic of the second one?

 

[Phillyfan33]

Would this work better?

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[Phillyfan33]

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[absolutangel04]

Let's all please stay on topic and just try to help the OP. Thanks.

 

[Phillyfan33]

Did the picture post?

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[Gillie]

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could we get a full body from the side photo of the yellow/orange guy? It's hard to tell from the ones provided if it has the fin patterns of a peacock or not.

 

[Phillyfan33]

Here ya go lol

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[Gillie]

I would say that it is a red zebra

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[Phillyfan33]

Awesome. Thanks!

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[Cecil2010]

Yea it defiantly has the body shape of a red zebra. But the horizontal shines lines make me think it has dragon blood mixed with it. It's defiantly some kind of red zebra hybrid though.

 

[Phillyfan33]

Do the blue cobalt and and red zebra breed?

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[Cecil2010]

Are you asking if they could breed with each other or just can they breed?

 

[Phillyfan33]

If they breed with each other, yeah

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[Cecil2010]

There will always be a possibility of it happening. Zebras and cobalts are hard to determine sex just by looking at the fish. Venting is the only real way to know for sure.

 

[Phillyfan33]

Isnt the auratus the more aggressive cichlid? My cichlids don't seem to have any issues at all but almost everything I've read shows they should be aggressive toward my other two. Just confused. Is it because he's a juvenile?

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