Brown Cichlids

[marilu]

Hey on another thread here on this site I saw discussion about brown mbuna. that they were hybrids and basically garbage.
In my large tank, along with real pretty Mbuna are some that have turned brown with age. a couple look like brown yellow labs and some look like brown striped Red Zebras. Pseudotropheus.
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I'm about ready to make a soda bottle fish catcher and freeze them.

 

[freddyk]

Hey on another thread here on this site I saw discussion about brown mbuna. that they were hybrids and basically garbage.
In my large tank, along with real pretty Mbuna are some that have turned brown with age. a couple look like brown yellow labs and some look like brown striped Red Zebras. Pseudotropheus.
Picture should not be necessary but are any Mbuna meant to be brown??[/size][/size]
I'm about ready to make a soda bottle fish catcher and freeze them.

There aren't many that are actually brown, though some like Pseudotropheus lucerna end up brownish. With a couple of species, like Pseudotropheus Flavus, the female will end up like that brown 'striped zebra'.

 

[Ferris]

A sub-dominant Maylandia Crabro can also appear brown and look like the fish you are describing.

 

[marilu]

hi thanks to both answers

let me do some research before I fire up the freezer!! LOL

my lack of research had me buying cichlids from the assorted tanks

 

[dthoffsett]

Female metriaclima greshaki are also a two tone brown zebra stripe.