please help identify this one

[primetime_3wise]

well here he or she is...

[primetime_3wise]

again...

[jonah]

Looks like Nimbochromis venustus.

[jonah]

Or it could be Nimbochromis livingstoni.

[primetime_3wise]

i can't say i'm convinced that that is him becasuse his stripes are a little different than the ones you showed. so here are 2 more picfs of him

[primetime_3wise]

again of this one

[WorldNation]

i'd bet my money on it beeing a venustus. looks like one of my 3

[primetime_3wise]

here is the best pic i have of him to date. i'm still not quite sure if he is the fish you are claiming.

[jonah]

Have you tried a Google image search? They don't all look exactly the same and mature fish look quite different, but the pictures you've shown definitly look like a venustus.

[primetime_3wise]

you were right it is a livingstoni. i went back to the petstore where i got him and it said that he was one. thanks!

[spikedsparkles]

i saw a venutus that looks exactly like that today... they get big, the one i saw was around 12inches..

[jonah]

Originally posted by spikedsparkles
i saw a venutus that looks exactly like that today... they get big, the one i saw was around 12inches..

Mature males get a blue/yellow color to them when they're ready to breed.

[TheThinkingFish]

I thought venutus had a red dorsal fin? I'm confused.

[TheThinkingFish]

Or I meant yellow head and torso...