Michigan Cichlid Association

Pics and Video => Fish pics => Topic started by: Thriftyfisher on October 23, 2011, 04:23:21 PM

Title: What species
Post by: Thriftyfisher on October 23, 2011, 04:23:21 PM

Alright I hate to do this but let's play name that species.  I purchased them this spring as fry at a GVAC meeting.  I lost the bag lable and now can not identify them.  The best I can come up with is they are Labidochromis chisumulae.  What do you guys think?  The one on the bottom is a male and the other is a female.

Title: Re: What species
Post by: JeffroM on October 23, 2011, 05:13:15 PM

I would have guessed labidochromis caeruleus lundo, but I thought both males and females had stripes.  So I guess what I'm saying is... I don't know either.

Title: Re: What species
Post by: Dan K on October 23, 2011, 05:21:32 PM

I BAPed Lab. chisumulae this spring at GVAC. Maybe they were mine.
I don't recall my breeding male having that many stripes though but I guess they can vary.

Title: Re: What species
Post by: Thriftyfisher on October 23, 2011, 07:20:02 PM

The female does have strips just doesn't show it in the photo. 

Unfortunately people have BAP'd both L. chisumulae and L caeruleus.  But putting the Lundo after a google search they do look like that fish more than he Chisumulae. 

I will contact the people that turned in that fish and see if they can't confirm.

Thanks for the help.

Here is the other photo I was going to include

Title: Re: What species
Post by: GrizzlysDad on November 14, 2011, 12:34:21 PM

Labidochromis gigas  :-\

Title: Re: What species
Post by: gmaschke on November 14, 2011, 08:04:44 PM

I have Gigas and they look nothing like that.   I shouldn't say "nothing like that" as there are similarities, but no doubt in my mind its not a gigas.

Title: Re: What species
Post by: Thriftyfisher on November 14, 2011, 08:16:57 PM

Thanks for the input.  I actually sold my group at the GVAC auction.  I sold them as L. chisumulae.  Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of "warm" tanks during the winter and didn't want them to freeze until it warmed up next spring.  They were nice fish.