Yellow Lab
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HappyGeorge
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Okay taken some more photos today he is looking a bit more yellow today 
Okay taken some more photos today he is looking a bit more yellow today
Yeah thats a johanni alright which would also fit in with it starting out yellow. Nice picks mate i think you should take some of mine : @ }
There is a Lab blue/white from Tumbi rocks as some one else said in another post but that is not your fish. Johannis ain't that bad on the aggresion stakes either. One of my favourite fish bread loads in the past.
HappyGeorge
Fish Herder
Thanks Stryper - Ok so is it a female or a male without a need to show his true colours or a juvenille who can't make up it's mind and which Johanni is it, because as much as I look at him I just can't see the Electric Blue Johanni body shape at all, his head shape is all wrong and his lips don't look right either? Is this now the general concensus of opinion?
Now worried about a) My tank mix.
b) My trusted LFS.
As for the photos having a decent camera is half the battle with this sort of thing, and taking decent low light photos of moving subjects without an SLR is pretty much impossible, I used to train Police Officers to use cameras for surveillance and evidential purposes so have been playing with them a while, it is also always worth running photos through a decent editing program if for no other reason than to try and match the image colours on the screen to what the eye sees.
Now worried about a) My tank mix.
b) My trusted LFS.
Now worried about a) My tank mix.
b) My trusted LFS.
As for the photos having a decent camera is half the battle with this sort of thing, and taking decent low light photos of moving subjects without an SLR is pretty much impossible, I used to train Police Officers to use cameras for surveillance and evidential purposes so have been playing with them a while, it is also always worth running photos through a decent editing program if for no other reason than to try and match the image colours on the screen to what the eye sees.
Now worried about a) My tank mix.
b) My trusted LFS.
It doesn't look like either an M.johanni or P.elongatus to me, body and head are all wrong. I'm not saying it's definitely a full lab, but I don't think it's either of the two mentioned, perhaps a cross is possible.
Well i suppose we can argue which fish this is all day guys. It may not be a Johanni but i'd say the evidence of fish turning from yellow to a dark blue black was a clue to it being said fish. You can even see port holes shapes starting to show up down it flank maybe another clue to it being M Johanni from Chisumulu see pg 332 in Ad Konnings book of cichlids and all other fish from lake malawi or malawi cichlids in their natural habitat pg 100 left hand picture.
Don't know were you are from mate. But this is a big problem in fishkeeping today i think. People who sell these and others not knowing or the type of fish not being good enough. Aquaflight at matlock in the U.K was THE best outlet for these kind of fish. But i regret to say this outlet is now no more. Anton who run the place was an amazing guy. When he sent me out a list with what he could get hold of. The fish looked just like the pictures in the books. Non of this is it this or is it that. It was exactly what he said. And that is why i'm not at the moment getting Mbuna. Unless i can go and pick them from Europe myself just as Anton did. Because for the most part we get the dreggs in the U.k no one else wants.
Rant now over lol.
Don't know were you are from mate. But this is a big problem in fishkeeping today i think. People who sell these and others not knowing or the type of fish not being good enough. Aquaflight at matlock in the U.K was THE best outlet for these kind of fish. But i regret to say this outlet is now no more. Anton who run the place was an amazing guy. When he sent me out a list with what he could get hold of. The fish looked just like the pictures in the books. Non of this is it this or is it that. It was exactly what he said. And that is why i'm not at the moment getting Mbuna. Unless i can go and pick them from Europe myself just as Anton did. Because for the most part we get the dreggs in the U.k no one else wants.
Rant now over lol.
HappyGeorge
Fish Herder
Well I think we can probably put this thread to bed and leave me to see what he turns into, I will re-awaken this thread if/when he shows any new compelling evidence. Thanks for everyones input some interesting points raised and I think everybodys knowledge benefits from this kind of thing.
As for the LFS I live in Kent and I had been touring shops for over 8 months while I worked on my DIY project and then put it all on the backburner to move house. I selected where I was going to buy my fish based on the following points.
a) Always clean with no floating dead half eaten fish.
b) Had staff who didn't pretend to know everything.
c) On several occasions gave me a less expensive alternative to what I was about to buy.
d) Replaced faulty water test kits (that I hadn't bought from them) for free.
e) Had a guy on staff who keeps Malawis and at no point used the words "Yeah they should be ok together" but frequently says things like "I wouldn't have them", "They are nasty little buggers" and "I would keep those in a bigger group"
I'm not sure I can even really blame them or him given the colour he was when he was in the tank, I don't think anyone would have questioned him being a Lab.
They have a large number of tanks and a far greater range than any other LFS (I say LFS but its a 50 mile round trip). All my other specimens are beautiful and they don't have the infamous Mixed cichlid tank full of hybrids, or peacocks, mbuna and haps all mixed together, so think I will stick with them but will be taken a photo back to show him whats happened to my "Yellow Lab".
Now all I need in my tank is one of those nice Orange and Black striped Socolofi with the yellow fins
As for the LFS I live in Kent and I had been touring shops for over 8 months while I worked on my DIY project and then put it all on the backburner to move house. I selected where I was going to buy my fish based on the following points.
a) Always clean with no floating dead half eaten fish.
b) Had staff who didn't pretend to know everything.
c) On several occasions gave me a less expensive alternative to what I was about to buy.
d) Replaced faulty water test kits (that I hadn't bought from them) for free.
e) Had a guy on staff who keeps Malawis and at no point used the words "Yeah they should be ok together" but frequently says things like "I wouldn't have them", "They are nasty little buggers" and "I would keep those in a bigger group"
I'm not sure I can even really blame them or him given the colour he was when he was in the tank, I don't think anyone would have questioned him being a Lab.
They have a large number of tanks and a far greater range than any other LFS (I say LFS but its a 50 mile round trip). All my other specimens are beautiful and they don't have the infamous Mixed cichlid tank full of hybrids, or peacocks, mbuna and haps all mixed together, so think I will stick with them but will be taken a photo back to show him whats happened to my "Yellow Lab".
Now all I need in my tank is one of those nice Orange and Black striped Socolofi with the yellow fins No problems mate i do get cared away when it comes to Mbuna though lol. No offence ment to anyone or shops you visit Gorge. I may not have to reply to threads like this as i'm like a pitbull with this kind of thing lol.
Cheers.
Andy
Cheers.
Andy
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