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ID on this rescue?
ID on this rescue?
She was in a tank with a lot of young Fryeri and other assorted cichlids. so who knows about the daddy!!! Probably one of the young male Fryeri is my guess.
posted by: lee howe

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Nov 14th, 2008
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Vince Cooper » posted 2008/11/14 - 19:57
Lee did you get this fish from the same dealer you got the sulpherhead? cause the broken horizontal stripe is almost the same.
Dan Noon » posted 2008/11/14 - 20:42
my guess would be protomelas annectens female
lee howe » posted 2008/11/14 - 20:55  
no vince it came from a differnet LFS but that was part of the reason we picked her up...we were kinda hoping they would be a pair
Dan Noon » posted 2008/11/14 - 21:23
Lee, check this link for pics of protomelas variants. there are a couple of pics that look similar to yours
http://www.akvariumas.lt/galerija/protomelas/index.shtml
***kylie *** » posted 2008/11/14 - 22:14
will be interesting as it grows..nice save lee..
lee howe » posted 2008/11/15 - 00:22
TY
bip_ 4u » posted 2008/11/15 - 11:29
Cichlid Storm » posted 2008/11/15 - 11:40  
this appears to be a young female Taenilotus (red empress), little thin from not having eaten in a couple weeks. Check the fry for size, strip and let her eat. At this small, the Annectens has a more elongated (pointed) mouth where as the Taenilotus has an arrow head. if you placed her in with the females you had, you would see the fit, other than the body fade from holding fry and being a lesser quality farmed specimen.
James Martin » posted 2008/11/16 - 02:07
Looks alot like my female P. virgatus
lee howe » posted 2008/11/16 - 05:38  
Wayne we thought about that but she has a more elongated body and the fins do not match the female red empress

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