Malawi Cichlid Id Help?

[karigupi]

I went to the LFS yesterday looking for new stock for my lonely empty 120ltr tank, was going to go for Convicts or Rams, but I saw these guys I fell in love, so I brought two home.

Would anyone be able to help me ID them please? They are a pale pink/lilacy body with dark stripes, orange fins with blue on the edges, oh & they have this greeny blue mark near their gills.

 

[Ashy_]

Rusty cichlid, lodotropheus sprengerae?

 

[mixmaster jay]

looks like a labidchromis hongi to me i have quite alot of these and the lesser females go a brownish mucky colour

not the best of pics i will try and get you another one a bit better

 

[mixmaster jay]

sorry i can't find a decent pic of a female on the net and mine wont stay still lol

 

[helterskelter]

personaly it looks like a female labidchromis hong but their are many fish similar which is the problem

 

[mixmaster jay]

they all seem to like alike lol but this does look like mine too

 

[karigupi]

Thanks for all the replies, they look very much like yours Jay, & some of them in the LFS looked quite brown.

 

[mixmaster jay]

the mucky brown ones are the sub-dominent females and males but they dont go as brown