Hi guys, just wondering on the expert opinions for the ID of this fish please:-

Thanks...

looks like a kenyi (spelling??? :-? ).

Pseudotropheus lombardoi

I thought kenyi too. Quite dark bands for a kenyi though, especially down onto the face.

Do kenyi's and demasoni's interbreed?

Yes quite dark for a kenyi and 2 many stripes for a five stripe lamprologus

did the picture come with any more info aqua?

pseudotropheus demasoni whiticus

Very dark for kenyi, maybe the colour was influenced by mood or lighting or the photo/flash. Or because that photo is of a younger fish sometimes barring is more intense on younger fish and fades out as they mature.

That photo has been taken off a trademe auction The barring on those fish looks alot better than what is usually sold around NZ.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Home-living/Pe ... 325886.htm

Completely different shape to be a 5/6bar lamp.

If you look here that photo is almost a dead ringer for one of the photos of a female kenyi (use drop down box).

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

End of the day who knows, ask the seller where they got it from and if it was sold as Kenyi?

Dems and kenyi can cross but I don't think the cross would look like this.. But with hybrids you can never tell they can throw back anyway they feel the urge

I thought kenyi too. Quite dark bands for a kenyi though, especially down onto the face.

Do kenyi's and demasoni's interbreed?

Yes quite dark for a kenyi and 2 many stripes for a five stripe lamprologus

did the picture come with any more info aqua?

pseudotropheus demasoni whiticus

Ok, yes, there is info but I didnt want to skew the results of my enquiry till I had a couple of replies

They are listed as Kenyi for sale elsewhere, and i thought the same thing about the intensity of the stripes but was not sure. There is a pic of another one which is a lot more washed out and closer to how I have seen Kenyi before. I would imagine kenyi and dems would interbrede - can anyone else verify this ?

yes they will interbreed as they are both pseudotropheus, and probably produce fertile offspring as well

edit"- if animals etc are of the same genus they can generally interbreed and be fertile

an excepion is a horse and donkey pairing

Kenyi are residing in the Metriaclima genus atm it seems they get reclassified all the time, at one stage most the mbuna were classified as ps. just the same as originally all peacocks were one species... They then came up with metriaclima/Maylandia which is essentially the same thing http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/m ... landia.php

They will still cross though I would put all mbuna in that category not just ones in the same families as most of them can and do cross readily and do produce viable offspring.