What fish is this?

[darknight]

Can anybody please identify this cichlid
thanks Andy

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/ajmal1/DSC02743.jpg
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[NorthernBoy]

I think it is Xenotilapia spiloptera.

http://www.fishbase.org/images/thumbnails/jpg/tn_Xespi_u0.jpg

credit to fishbase of course!

[William]

Don't know. I think that it looks like a female of a Haplochromis species.

Are you sure that they are malawi or could they be a Victoria cichlid?

[darknight]

not a clue what it is or where it comes from its about 5 inch approx friendly fish femal
does anybody want to swap? all malawi offers considered

[NorthernBoy]

yea you may be right about it being a hap. I looked at some pictures and the dorsal fins are much more characteristic of a hap. I am going to look aroung some more.

[darknight]

alan from another site said it could be a otopharynx heterodon female or Copadichromis chrysonatus i think he could be right