African Cichlid Id? From Lake Malawi

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CoryFever

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I visited an LFS in Ohio a few weeks ago and the owner gave me a tour of the hatchery where he breeds his fish. Great tour, and along the way I saw these two stunners:
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Any way I could get an ID?
BTW the store was Something Fishy in Cleveland, Ohio. Great service and I really enjoy my visits there. I can only go once a year, but I make the most out of it each time.
 
I'd say the bottom one is a sunshine peacock mixed with something else posable a yellow lab I'm not sure on the top one.
 
I don't think it's a German red as I have several German reds and I've never seen one that looks like that at least not a pure breed one.
 
If you search german red cichlid on google images and scroll down, then you can see some that look similar to them, but def not pure breed.
 
Top one looks like a Super Red Empress.  The other is a sunshine peacock.  That's  the best red empress I've ever seen. 

Red Empress
 
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