"Yellow Finned" .... ?

[dcoufal]

Just picked this little guy up at the LFS and I know is it's a "yellow finned"..... something.....

Any ideas?

http://home.net-router.com/images/fish/unknown_cichlid.jpg

It acually looks more violet/purple under some light if that helps any.

Dwain

[jaysun]

P. Acei? if you say its main body is purple/blue-ish

[dcoufal]

It looks purplish from the front and dark grey from the sides.... I know that probably sounds weird; but, it's what I see.

I looked at a pic of a P.Acei and this fish is nowhere near that brilliant blue - it's really more greyish-purple.

Maybe the lights are just playing tricks on my eyes or something...

Dwain

[Cypherman]

Yellow finned borleyi, I think...

[SGypsyMermaid]

i agree with cypherman.

[TheThinkingFish]

That is a yellow finned borleyi (Chopadichromis borleyi).. if it is male, it will turn blue and get yellow on its sides. Females stay gray with yellow fins. A beautiful fish.. . grows to a good size too. Eight inches.

[dcoufal]

That's it! (Copadichromis borleyi)

I found a picture and it looks identical (to the female). It doesn't state how large the fish is before it turns blue if it's a male - any ideas?

Also, finding out it's a vegetarian explains why it kept spitting out the frozen brine shrimp earlier....and it's eagerness to eat the spirolina sticks this evening!

Dwain

[SGypsyMermaid]

i, also, read somewhere online that it's a vegetarian, bit i'm not so sure that that's completely correct. according to ad konings, they feed on plankton. i never had any trouble with mine eating protein. as i learned in a prior discussion, there is vegetable matter in the plankton(phytoplankton), but i think that the bulk of it is protein(zooplankton).

[Cypherman]

I agree with SGypsyMermaid :D

[dcoufal]

I gave her some zooplankton and she ate it....then I tried frozen bloodworms - she those too.

She still doesn't seem to like the taste of frozen brine shrimp, though....

[SGypsyMermaid]

Originally posted by dcoufal
I gave her some zooplankton and she ate it....then I tried frozen bloodworms - she those too.

She still doesn't seem to like the taste of frozen brine shrimp, though....

maybe she has shellfish allergies.:twisted: