Help Me Id These Cichlids!

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am3ience

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I bought 7 fish from an assorted cichlid tank from my http://www.fishlore.com/fishdictionary/l.htm#lfs, 4 of them were yellowish and orange in color, and 3 were blue with stripes visible at times. These are the best pics I could do, since they all go into hiding once I get anywhere near the tank, but when i'm far away they are really active. 

They are in a 55 gallon tank, thinking of adding more fish to get 15 of them, but wanted to make sure what kind of fish these were before getting more. 

 
http://imgur.com/a/36vec#l66osmR
 
The orange ones are, it looks like, either Red Zebra (Metriaclima estherae) or Kingsizei Lupingu (Metriaclima sp.) , but I'm no cichlid expert. Both are Malawi/Victorian.
 
The blues look like Chinuni (Cynotilapia zebroides) or (Cynotilapia zebroides) "Metangula" aka white top afra. Malawi/Victorian rock dwellers again.
 
I'm going off of this http://www.african-cichlid.com/Lake_Malawi.htm so I don't know much about size or requirements, I'll leave that to experts. ;)
 

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