IDing the cichlids

[Cornstar]

Found a person on craiglist who is ridding her tank. She also has a few cichlids but doesn't know what they are. So far I was only able to id the yellow labs and red zebra.

 

[TheGrza]

Demasoni, johanni, and venustus maybe

 

[joel618]

Demasoni, johanni, and venustus maybe

That's my guess

 

[garfy]

Demasoni, johanni, and venustus maybe

Sounds spot on to me.

 

[Cornstar]

Would demasoni go well with yellow labs, afra cobue and srt. Hongi?

A person claims to be selling srt. Hongi, I can't seem to find out what they are although he showed me a picture.

 

[Edwards36]

I have damasoni with cichlids and they are fine.

 

[toddnbecka]

First one is NOT a demasoni, the face is a solid color, no stripes. I'm thinking it's some species of mbuna though, the pattern doesn't match frontosa or tretocephalus.

 

[kay-bee19]

The first one is unmisakably a frontosa. The facial area in front of the first stripe has just gone dark. It does have a discernable eye stripe and a mood-based darkened face. If you still have any doubts its size alone in a year or two will prove it.

The second fish may actually be a male msobo. Johanni's tend to have well-defined horizontal stripes and are more torpedo shaped. Msobo's have random scribbles and streaks and like other metriaclima species, have stockier builds than the melanochromis species.

Here's a photo of a male msobo for comparison:

 

[Spoor3773]

I agree that the 1st pic looks like a frontosa. From what I can make out its not the common 7 stripe frontosa which is black and white but the zaire blue version. I ve wanted one of them for ages but never came across any.

 

[Cichlid-dude]

Yep first looks like a frontosa to me as well

 

[kdpuffer]

I too agree that looks like an mpimbwe blue frontosa.