pic's of my fish...

[mynamzmudd]

Please try to help me identify these fish. hope you enjoy the pic's.

[Goodbye]

Nice pics!! thumbs2: thumbs2: The yellow ones are Yellow Labs (Labidochromis caeruleus)

[rich311k]

Very nice fish!

[mynamzmudd]

i know the yellow lab's. the other's are what im courious about. petsmart claim's they are Ice blue zebra's and jewel fish.

[octoxpuss]

i know the last pic of the single fish is a jewel cichlid and it is a ice blue zebra

[mynamzmudd]

I bought 3 ice blue zebra's and all 3 look different.

[octoxpuss]

Well from what i can see in the pictures i see a resemblence of the fish in pics one and two i mean the second pic the ice blue is a bit more colorful in striping but they have the same color patterns

[Swifterz]

i'm new to this but the blue one looks like an acei to me. i could be totally wrong.

[Lab_Rat]

Looks like you have a bunch of yellow lab/yellow lab hybrids. The purpley fish with a yellow tail is a pseudotropheus acei. The last fish is a jewel cichlid; they originate in rivers and generally should not be kept with the rift lake cichlids as they have different water parameter requirements.

[rangur1]

you have yellow labs, the last picture looks like a jewel cichlid-not african which means it has different water requirements. 1st pic looks like a yellow lab and a pseudotropus acei. picture 2 looks like a different lab, maybe labidochromis textilus.

[Brookfish]

Nice fish and pics, I think Lab_Rat has sorted your id's out!

[mynamzmudd]

I bought the yellow lab's at a fish store in Erie P.A. The jewles and Ice blue zebra's I got from petsmart here in Youngstown Ohio. So what some of you are saying is I have african and south american cichlid's in my tank?

[kaybee]

...So what some of you are saying is I have african and south american cichlid's in my tank?

No, all are African. The mbuna's are east African rift lake cichlids (originating from Lake Malawi); the jewel is a west african cichlid. I'm not sure how compatible the jewels and mbuna's are.

[mynamzmudd]

ok, I was not sure. From what im understanding it's not good to mix south/central american with african.

[Lab_Rat]

ok, I was not sure. From what im understanding it's not good to mix south/central american with african.

Your understanding is correct. What Kaybee said is also correct, the jewels are african cichlids. They originate in the rivers though, not the rift lakes. The rivers have a very different set of water parameters than the rift lakes do. The difference in water parameters, along with different sorts of behaviors is why it is not generally recommended to keep the jewel with the malawi. That being said, you'll see people doing it all of the time.

[mynamzmudd]

Ahhhhhhh, got it now. There are wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too many species of cichlid's!! cant we just call them african, central or south american and be done with it? lol j/k. :14: All the scientific name's will drive a person nut's if they try to keep up with all of them.

[kaybee]

To add even another layer of information, the categories above can be sub-categorized even further (example, Rift Lake Cichlids, there are three rift lakes, Victoria, Malawi, Tanganyika, and within each lake there are several group-types of cichlid, which may or may not be compatible with each other). :hmm3grin2orange:

[Jerm_the_werm]

i am putting labs in my tank (75g) how much did you pay?