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badman
Admin
Username: badman
Post Number: 550
Registered: 01-2003
| | Posted on Monday, February 27, 2006 - 08:24 pm: | 
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Dan, Cindy and all I was sent these photos for identification, I knew where I had to go. I do have larger files if needed. Thanks for your help as always.
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rob
Regular Member
Username: rob
Post Number: 276
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 04:42 am: |
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1: No idea - i found a pic on google that was like an exact match but it was on a bible site so about as usfull for classification as a 5yr olds finger painting..
2: Neolamprologus sexfasciatus? (just saw 6 bars)
3: Maylandia callainos? or Crytocara moorii?maybe...
Just sugestions, hopefully dan can correct me.
Beauty lies in the eyes of the Beerholder.
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dan
Moderator
Username: dan
Post Number: 6601
Registered: 01-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 06:42 am: |
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Maylandia estherae
Lamprologus tretocephalus
Metriaclima callainos
you're never too old to have a happy childhood.
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cindy
Ancient Plus
Username: cindy
Post Number: 9367
Registered: 05-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 06:50 am: |
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I'd call the first two kenyi, #1 a male and #2 a female. The first I am certain of, the second I could be wrong, there are several that look like that. The third could also be several different cichlids. If I had to hazard a guess, I would go with Pseudotropheus socolofi:
http://web.mit.edu/lxs/www/cichlids/powder-blue.html
...but I know dan will know exactly what it is.
The scientific name I've always used for the kenyi is Pseudotropheus lombardoi, but I have found them under 3 different genus and 2 different species names...binomial taxonomy is sometimes almost as bad as common names are.
"The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve." --- Albert Schweitzer
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cindy
Ancient Plus
Username: cindy
Post Number: 9368
Registered: 05-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 06:55 am: |
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Well, dan types faster than me and it shows you once again I shouldn't guess. I would have bet my paycheck on the first pic being a male kenyi.
Here are 2 bad pics of my male:
 
...right down to the rubbed spot on his nose from attacking peope that get too near his "love nest"...
"The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve." --- Albert Schweitzer
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dan
Moderator
Username: dan
Post Number: 6606
Registered: 01-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 08:10 am: |
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now i look at cindy's answer and the pics again, i think she's right on the first two. i'm still going with callainos on the third though. i was too hasty and maybe not quite awake yet. next time, i'll wait for her answers and then add my 'guess'. 
(Message edited by dan on February 28, 2006)
you're never too old to have a happy childhood.
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rob
Regular Member
Username: rob
Post Number: 279
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 01, 2006 - 06:56 am: |
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Yeah! i may have been right on one! See Guys i'm learning, lol, your rubbing off on me.
A good scapegoat is nearly as welcome as a solution to the problem..
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Jason Dawson
New Member
Username: inhaleicus
Post Number: 5
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, April 08, 2006 - 04:43 am: |
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Yellow ones are kenyi (male, M. lombardoi). The second pic is juv/female kenyi. Distinctive face and mouth. Third pic looks like a cobalt (M. callainos).
J |
Jason Dawson
New Member
Username: inhaleicus
Post Number: 6
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, April 08, 2006 - 04:46 am: |
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PS, my male kenyi (3-3.5") has the same habit of busting his top lip (pale spot). Stand-off-ish fellows, the lombardoi.
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