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[Simon.Wilson1]

Hi,

New on here and setting up a Malawi tank... saying goodbye to all my convicts. I 'inherited' a number of cichlids from someone who was uprooting, and these two have me baffled. I think they may be a Peacock. That is, assuming they are a pair. They both are displaying breeding behaviour with each other. The bigger, mor orange one has four egg spots, three of them yellow with a dark edge, the forth without the dark edge. It's about 12cm long.

The second one is much smaller, maybe 6cm and only has 2 egg spots (yellow with dark edges).

My apologies if they are something obvious to you.

By the way, I don't know where they came from at all. I wish I had asked!

Thanks

 

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Ok, she just layed eggs and he fertilised them!

Edited by Simon.Wilson1, 09 June 2015 - 12:19 AM.

[sandgroper]

1. Is Pundamilia nyererei, possibly (Python Island), a lake victorian cichlid.

2. not sure but also a lake Victorian cichlid. To young, may be female, but different to No 1.

[Buccal]

The second is likely a female Haplochromis hippo pt salmon
Or similar looking are female Haplochromis enterochromis paropius (broken bar).
I breed both and have released both,,, but the Haplochromis enterochromis paropius I breed are the full bar variety.
A breeder over east breeds the broken bar variety and may have shipped them here.

Don't extract or rear your fry though, unless you keep them forever,,, as the hybrids jeopardizes pure bloodlines.

[Kleinz]

Victorian.  Male is probably  pundamilia nyereri.

 

Female is hard to tell. IMO head is wrong for hippo point, and body too deep, but that could be the refraction. If you let it grow a bit it will become clearer

[Simon.Wilson1]

Thank you everyone. Will try to get a better photo of the female. There is another smaller female too, so I suspect they came from the same source. I think the fry will become Convict food.

[Simon.Wilson1]

With and without flash. Yes, got to get rid of those algae spots, I know!

Note: she had orange going through her tail and the tips of her dorsal fin.

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Edited by Simon.Wilson1, 09 June 2015 - 06:25 PM.

[dicky7]

looks like a female Nyereri  could always wait and see if the male is interested  and breeds if you want to get rid of the male and female I would be interested

[Buccal]

Yeah most likely Enterochromis with its more protruding nose.

The linage on the flanks in female hippo and Enterochromis are very similar.
There are Definetely slight variences in head shape on odd individuals.

I've been breeding hippo and Enterochromis for over two years now and maybe produced well over 1000 hippos and maybe 300 Enterochromis (not as popular),,,, and there seems to be a slight mutation in a very occasional female,,,, wouldn't call it deformity though.

Hmmm, I hope no ones breeding hippo and Enterochromis together mistakingly.

[Simon.Wilson1]

Yesterday they did the full breeding job. He fertilised the eggs and she's now got them tucked up in her mouth.

[Buccal]

Yeah, all those hap types will happily crossbreed.

[Simon.Wilson1]

OOPS! The photo with no flash is the other female, a bit smaller. The flash one's the girl with eggs.

Edited by Simon.Wilson1, 09 June 2015 - 07:52 PM.

[Buccal]

The long time flamebacks that has been circulating Australia for a long time,,, is well known to be crossed with other Vic haps.
This had been accepted some time ago as a "oz bloodline".