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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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 :D

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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

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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

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