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[matt & soph]

Hi

Just picked up a group of cichlids and not sure what a few of them are. Hoping that someone could help ID.
 
Would appreciate any help that you can give.
 
Cheers
Matt

Fish 1 (the two in pic 2 are the same fish)
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Fish 2
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Fish 3 (are these pseudotropheus sp. acei 'Tanzanian black'?)
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Fish 4 (is this pseudotropheus acei yellow tail?)
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Fish 5
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Edited by matt & soph, 05 July 2015 - 10:24 PM.

[Riggers]

1. Red empress

2. Tangerine peacock

3. Phenochilus Tanzania (not %100 sure)

4. Acei yellow tail

5. Marbled peacock (not %100 sure either)

I might be off on a couple but I'm sure some of the others can steer ya right

Cheers
Rigs

[-Rob-]

Riggers ID's on fish 1, 2 & 5 are correct, but I think fish 3 is the aceii and fish is a fish 4 is a copadichromis borleyi red fin kadango. 

Edited by -Rob-, 08 July 2015 - 06:37 PM.

[matt & soph]

Thanks guys really appreciate the help.

[LexAgate]

4 looks much like a Victorian to me tbh anyone sure? Matt & soph post some more pics of 4 if possible!

[Riggers]

Yeah a couple more of 4 and 5 would be great!! I'll get my fish encyclopaedia out tonight!!

[matt & soph]

hi guys here some more photos that I managed to get tonight after work. Also added some of a female borleyi that I already had for comparison. Now that Rob has said it I can see the similarities.

 

cheers

 

These are the fish in question

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I have also taken some of my borleyi which I already had (it is smaller, and has blotches on the side but looks very similar. It has the same rounded anal fin)

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Also can I ask how many fish should I keep in a 6 x 2 x 2 tank. Is the list below too much or could I possibly fit some more in. I am running 2 x ehiem 2217 and 2 x sponge filers. Do a 30% water change weekly.

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The stock I currently have is:

5 x red zebra

4 x clown loach

3 x yoyo loach

2 x common bristlenose

1 x peppermint bristlenose

5 x D. Strigatus

6 x C. Borleyi (1 female and 5 males)

1 x D. Compressiceps

2 x Angle fish

1 x Venustus

1 x maingano

1 x albino rainbow shark

3 x red empress (1 male and 2 females)

1 x tangerine peacock (fish 2 in above post)

1 x marble peacock (fish 5 in above post)

2 x acei Tanzania (fish 3 in post above)

1 x tropheus duboisi

2 x cuckoo catfish

2 x sulphur crested lithobate

4 x corydora

1 x mystery fish (fish 4in above post)

5 x goyder river rainbow fish

Edited by matt & soph, 09 July 2015 - 11:01 PM.

[-Rob-]

The tank looks great, I love the holey rock.

 

The ID looks like a borleyi female.

 

I reckon the stocking number is fine at the moment - comes down to how much maintenance you are happy doing on it. e.g. when the strigatus, red empress, venustus, borleyi etc get big in a year or so, it may seem crowded then but fine when they are that size now. I keep large haps aswell and find that the bigger the fish, the more maintenance required and the more waste they produce, so when the fish get bigger I thin out the stocking a bit.

[Chopstick_mike]

I would move on the tropheus Dubois or get more they really only do well in big groups maybe take out all the loaches to make room for more duboisi and I don't think your corydoras will survive cichlids are incredibly aggressive especially your venustus and compressiceps they will eat anything they can fit in there mouth but that's all my opinion , tank looks awesome though