Can Someone Please Identify These Two?

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Supraman

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Ok I got a bunch of kenyi for 5$ but these are the two odd balls. I believe one is a blue convict while the other I'm not sure on.

Blue convict?


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And the mystery cow! It's so mean it chases my big male kenyi around the tank!

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Thanks for the help!
 
I keep seeing pictures of kenyis lol, no convicts.  Kenyis are either blue or yellow, or a right inbetween the 2.  Also, there are albino kenyi which are all pink.

The first one is a female, second one is a large male.

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coonvicts are qutie different iand unmistakebable
 
Maybe I was mistaken but there is another fish that is awfully close to a kenyi but a definite give away that the first is not a kenyi is the striping. All kenyi females I have seen have the stripes pointing Down. This one however has them going both up and down. I have currently 5 female kenyi and not one of them has multi direction stripes.

I hope that makes sense? Also you say the other is a large make kenyi, but if it was a male it would be yellow would it not? Females are known to change color to yellow when stressed out by the males when he's trying to get lucky as a sort of camouflage. But why would the male change to blue?
 
The females are almost always blue, the males change around color very often.  It is EXTREMELY rare for a female to turn yellow, although it has been known to happen on rare occasions, and the yellowing is usually always a dominance struggle sign, trying to flash up to look a stronger fish.
 
I am not sure what you mean by the stripes, the stripes can certainly vary from fish to fish.
 
Here is a pic of a kenyi female i have in my community tank, I have never seen her turn yellow even slightly.  
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The only other fish I can think of that will look very similar to the blue kenyi would be a blue peacock, they do have the more slender body like the fish you pictured, as a small fish you probably would have trouble comparing the 2, but as the peacock grew so would its dorsal fin and coloration would change, they get some underlying reflective coloring.
 

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