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Gone_Troppo   Enthusiast Posts: 285 Kudos: 196 Registered: 13-Mar-2007   |  Edited by Gone_TroppoWe have recently acquired our first peacock cichlid, which I think is an Aulonocara jacobfreibergi. I would like to positively identify the species before we order a couple of females to keep him company. The pics linked below are not the best quality but will hopefully be enough to allow one of the resident cichlid experts to positively ID him for us. http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s250/Gone_Troppo/peacock_cichlid.jpg http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s250/Gone_Troppo/peacock_cichlid_02.jpg Thanks for your help G_T Edit: just got a slightly better pic of its colours http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s250/Gone_Troppo/peacock_cichlid_3.jpg Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic. |
 Posted 18-May-2007 15:21 |     |
Calilasseia    *Ultimate Fish Guru* Panda Funster Posts: 5496 Kudos: 2828 Votes: 731 Registered: 10-Feb-2003   | Hmm, looks at first sight as if it could be jacobfreibergi, but ... to be absolutely sure, you might want to go to the Cichlid Room and take a look at their illustrations. Here's the page listing the Aulonocara species. Click on an image in the left hand fr Take note incidentally that if you look at the photos of jacobfreibergi on that site, there are different colour morphs depending upon where the fish was collected. Yours has the blue facial markings of an individual from Hongi, but males from that locality tend to develop very bright yellow colouration in the anal fin as shown in the Cichlid Room photo of such a specimen. Yours at the moment has a more reddish-orange anal fin like the Otter Point specimen, but Otter Point specimens have more blue on the head. However, since yours is likely to be a juvenile anyway, you have time to work out which fish it is before launching into finding some females for it. To give you an idea of the kind of variation you can expect to find in some Aulonocara Cichlids, take a look at the illustrations for Aulonocara stuartgranti. There's four different colour morphs there!  |
| Posted 18-May-2007 23:53 |   |
| Gone_Troppo Enthusiast Posts: 285 Kudos: 196 Registered: 13-Mar-2007 | Thanks very much for your help and the link Cali.  It does appear that this is a colour morph of the jacobfreibergi. Our LFS have offered to order us a couple of females, but seeing as they weren't certain of the species I thought that I'd better double check otherwise we would be likely to end up with something completely different. G_T Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic. |
| Posted 19-May-2007 11:35 | |
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