Tank is a Aqua One AR980 215ltr

its been a long road to get this far

Hi Mitch nice tank, what is the fish in the top photo it looks like a Kenyi to me.

Nice looking tank..

It Was a zebra when i got it,i am just going by the book, anyway have a relook at pics as i fixed a few things up and the added some more picks

By the way it was blue

FYI Mitch Kenyi all oringinally look blue. As they grow larger, if they are males they will transform to yellow, if female they then stay blue.

http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/s ... php?id=798

yes i looked up kenyi and i ended up on a site called cichlid madness and what do know there they were, so yes you are right.

They are a nice looking fish. It said they live for 10 years so that is also good. (did you see the offspring)

looking good mitch!

yes i am really happy, I had two tanks one with Cichlids & one with Gourams,cherrys etc in it. It took awhile to pick a group so im happy i stayed with Cichlids.

I have only been doing this for just over a year and it has been a up and down ride, but i think things are now looking up

Nice looking set up, well done.

Frenchy

yes i am realy happy with the way it turnd out, as i said i am new to this so any info would be great

Great looking setup, well done

Just a question. What are the ones in pic 3 bought as. The 2 blue ones. They are different to the kenyi.

Frenchy

they are there babys. male is blue when they are small

male is blue when they are small

Cheers, know that.

Just a question for others that keep lombardoi. Anyone else think the ones in pic 3 don't look right then? One of them has 7 prominent bars, not right to me sorry.

Frenchy

I dont think its a Lombardoi either

Do you have a pic of both adults you have as Lombardoi??

Brad

Probably those in pic 1 & 7 Brad. Pic 6 isn't one either.

Frenchy

when i started with cichlids i brought 3 ( they called them Blue Zebras) and 3 Electric yellows.

They got bigger one of the Blue ones changed in coloration. I had a change around in the tank and found the juveniles in a cave i had put in there.

I thougt they wre one thing looking in my book but GMC made me Google Kenyi and what do you know i did have a Metriaclima as i thought but it was a sub Kenyi not a Zebra as i frist thought.

I only added a Auratus last week and the 12cm Bristlenose has been there for about 6 months eating eggs. Oh got some platies in ther as well (they do get on well)

I will how ever say that the kennyi in my book doz not look the same.

The Aquarium fish hand book by Dick Mills & Derek Lambert

I was thinking the same as hff and ff. I thought that kenyi didnt have that many vert. bars?

So do you have kenyi and some blue zebras in their?

as i said i brought 3 ( they called them Blue Zebras) AND 3 Electric yellows from the same place at the same time. the fish you are looking at are the off spring of those Fish

Pic 7 is a male the other two are female as they are still blue

http://www.cichlidmadness.com/forums/in ... opic=17681

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metriaclima

http://www.aquariumlife.net/profiles/af ... 100002.asp

See if the above can put light on things

did some more picks..... 1&4 is the male 2&3 are the females it would be good to sort this out (the young are in the back ground)

The fry are a hybrid. They look nothing like lombardoi.

That proves that something you have is either a cross breed, or the one of females are not lombardoi. The females barring isn't right to true lombardoi, especially the one in the 3rd pic.

I will add the male looks like a lombardoi. What does worry me in him is the black edging in his anal fins. Not a trait of lombardoi.

Compare to these pics, none show black edging in anal fins & compare the body barrings.

http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=798

Like you said you bought them as blue zebras. That is all that they are. Sorry.

Frenchy

what about Pseudotropheus lombardoi? Rember he was blue http://www.aquariumlife.net/profiles/af ... 100002.asp

(we are talking about the last set of pics?)

The fry are not Lombardoi

The Male does look fairlyu ok to me and probably a true Lombardoi but I dont think the females are

I would guess one or both of the females are a Zeb/Lomb mix and hence the fry arent showing true Lombardoi features

Pseudotropheus lombardoi and Metriaclima Lombardoi are the same fish just a new name

Im 100% they are not true Lombardoi

Brad

i dont know they were the size of my little finger when i got them blue with dark markings and the labidochromis caerules were smaller. What i do know is they came frm the same tank set up as i have so may be the get mixted there