Pundamilia neyrerei - final ID?

[DoctorV]

Dear all,

I purchased a Pundamilia neyrerei at my LFS the other day.
Any ideas on the particular location, please?
StructureGuy, here is my lousy photo work LOL :).
This beautiful fish doesn't cooperate with me much...

[Jeff F.]

I would say Makobe Island. http://www.african-cichlid.com/Lake_Victoria.htm P.S. Very Nice!!!

[StructureGuy]

I would say Makobe Island.

Yea, I think so too.
Kevin

[deadman-1]

that is a pundamillia nyereri ingombi island, i have kept them for a awhile and also had some good spawns of them, and have fry growing out. here is one of my males.

[StructureGuy]

that is a pundamillia nyereri ingombi island.

Could be, they are similar enough. I thought that the key here is whether the dorsal fins are redish (Makobe) orange (Python) or not (Igombe).

Python
http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=1569
http://www.haplochromis.org/minifiches/922_412_FR.html

Igombe
http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=1567

Makobe
http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=1568
http://www.haplochromis.org/minifiches/922_740_FR.html


Kevin

[deadman-1]

cool i would love to see what the frnch have to say. i have sold some of these to daves rare fish and they seem to agree. but you know how it is with vics positive id is not easy. you may be right

[DoctorV]

The fins are clearly brightly colored on mine and the problem is that I cannot tell 100% whether they are reddish or have some hue of orange as well. However, I am strongly inclined to declare them rather red. Hence - Macobe? :)

Thanks a lot for helping with ID!

Val

[StructureGuy]

i have sold some of these to daves rare fish and they seem to agree. but you know how it is with vics positive id is not easy. you may be right

To me yours do indeed look like Igombe ...... but Doc V's look like either Python or Makobe.

And I've second guessed mine at times (Makobe vs Python) as well.

Kevin

[dehn]

Beautiful Fish Doc.

[AfricanCichlidFanatic]

I would have to say absolutely not an Igombe island. I don’t think it is a Python island either. I would have to say it is a Makobe island.