angelhf13
01-18-2003, 09:49 PM
Sorry, no picture available, but I'll do my best to describe! When I first purchased this pair, they were both all orange...no stripes, spots, nothing. The guy at the pet store didnt really give me a name, he just said they would "go well" with the other cichlids I purchased (Yellow Labs). Anyway, I had to separate the 2 orange ones because one was picking on the other really bad, I kept them separate for about a month. During this month the aggressive one changed completely. He has hardly a trace of orange at all now. He is a pale purple with dark vertical stripes. His top fin has a light yellow or white stripe on the very top, and 3 or 4 pale orange spots at the end. All his other fins are very dark and trimmed in light blue. I put him back in the tank with the others after his change, and he became the "king" of the tank so to speak. The other one is still all orange, though now and then I can make out some very pale vertical stripes, and still very timid. Im assuming this is the female of the pair. Hopefully someone can tell me if this is so, and what they are! Thanx!