Please Can You Help Id These 8 Malawis?

[Ava_Banana]

Hi all,

bought a new tank (I know....another one) on Saturday.......only difficulty was that it came with inhabitants.....they don't suit my setups so I am putting them on Aquarist Classified........however.....I don't know a lot about them......or even what they are called........please can you help ID them?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Fish 1:

Fish 2:

Fish 3:

Fish 4:

Fish 5:

Fish 6:

Fish 7:

Fish 8:
That is seven fish that I managed to get out of all the shots I took...........I couldn't spot the 8th......but he was darkish and similar to the more elongated fish......he might be in the next few "group" shots!

Thanks in advance for your help.....

I think number 5 is an Electric Yellow!

 

[fish_r_great]

Yea 5 looks like a yelow lab but the others look like hybrids of other species or uncommon species that I've never seen... stuff like that happens a lot with African Cichlids though

 

[Ferris]

Pic1 - Probably Melanochromis Chipokae - looks stressed so difficult to be sure
Pic2 - Female Maylandia Lombardoi
Pic3 - Probably an Elongatus but again it looks stressed so hard to tell
Pic4 - Male Maylandia Lombardoi
Pic5 - Yellow lab
Pic6 - Metriaclima Estherae
Pic7 - Lab sp.Hongi

 

[Gatorbait]

Ferris is the man when it comes to African cichlids!!!!

I only knew 4 of those (1,2,4 and 5) and have never heard of #6 and #7 before.

#1 Definitely looks like a male M. chipokae but like Ferris said, it is really stressed about something so it's hard to tell for sure.

 

[Ava_Banana]

Pic1 - Probably Melanochromis Chipokae - looks stressed so difficult to be sure
Pic2 - Female Maylandia Lombardoi
Pic3 - Probably an Elongatus but again it looks stressed so hard to tell
Pic4 - Male Maylandia Lombardoi
Pic5 - Yellow lab
Pic6 - Metriaclima Estherae
Pic7 - Lab sp.Hongi

Thanks very much to all who posted......and nice one Ferris!

Stressed because:

Just been moved from someone's house, into a bucket....travelled by car for 20 mins....back into a fairly bare tank...tank set up in record time.....there aren't many places to hide in the tank (just got 5 or 6 pieces of medium sized bogwood in there) and a couple of them are really setting out their territories...

....oh....and there is this big bald fat bloke taking about one hundred flash photographs of them so that he can get one or two good ones....

 

[Ferris]

....oh....and there is this big bald fat bloke taking about one hundred flash photographs of them so that he can get one or two good ones....

 

[guppy_man]

Are you keeping them?
i wouldn't suggest keeping the bogwood in the tank, go for rocks that will make your ph higher like limestone, lava rock ect.

 

[Ava_Banana]

Are you keeping them?
i wouldn't suggest keeping the bogwood in the tank, go for rocks that will make your ph higher like limestone, lava rock ect.

Thanks but no.....I am not keeping them........the tank is currently for sale on Ebay....(42 gallon, 1 bid so far ) so if they don't get sold by the weekend, they are going for "fish credit" at my lfs....

 

[loafybones]

Is the tank sold?? If not where can i find it on Ebay??

Nice pictures by the way- you must be a professional!!!