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]:| She's done it again. I have just returned from a weekend away to find 2 new additions to my newly cycled cichlid tank!!! I am not quite sure what they are, however they are almost identical to the Pseudotropheus demasoni, link here for the profile at this site,

http://www.fishprofiles.com/profiles/fw/profile.asp?id=Pseudotropheus+demasoni

however searching around I have found another site with what looks to be a completely different species sharing the same name, see below,
http://www.tropicalfishfinder.co.uk/fish_detail.asp?id=677&fishType=tropical

Now to confuse things even further my sister swears they were sold as some kind of moorii!! They aren't as below as their hards aren't as square http://www.fishprofiles.com/profiles/fw/profile.asp?id=Cyrtocara+moorii

Please lets not get into the discussion of responsible fish selling, etc as I am annoyed as it is... (they won't take the stock back!!!) I even offered to give them back for free, they cost 8.85 each!!

Which picture is of the Pseudotropheus demasoni,can anyone offer any further info on them so i can do a bit of quick research, does anyone have a 'moorii' similar to the 1st link that they have a picture of for comparison.

Many thanks

MDB
(p.s unfortunately i don't have access to a digital camera, which would make identification that bit easier)






[span class="edited"][Edited by MDB 2004-08-30 14:30][/span]

to answer the first part of your post those are most likely different variants form different parts of the lake. does your fish have stripes if it does then it is probably a demasoni. im guessing that this is your 10g shelldweller. if it is you need to get rid of the newfish

The demasoni is the fish in the above link, some look alikes are the neolamprologus tetracephalus (lake tanganyika) and the afra.

Tetracephalus
http://www.g-hoener.de/images/14%20Afrika-Tanganjika/Neolamprologus_tretocephalus.JPG


Afra[link=http://
www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid97/pe90c1f5faf0352396ff0a7a259f28c41/fa147bfe.jpg]http://
www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid97/pe90c1f5faf0352396ff0a7a259f28c41/fa147bfe.jpg[/link]

The bottom link is a moori.

Honestly, there are so many malawians that are blue with stripes that I wouldn't definitively say that it is a demasoni. It could very well be a moorii. The photo you linked to is of an adult; the juvis probably haven't developed the hump yet, and may have stripes (I'm not too sure, as mbuna are more my thing!).

Here's a pic of juvenile mooriis.


just beginning attached this image:
[img]http://www.fishprofiles.net/attachments/424270.jpg"]

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. - Oscar Wilde

Monkey the newly inhabited tank is a 75g, not the 10g cold water 'hair algae' tank, as I haven't had a chance to strip it yet.

I am now ademant that it is the variety pictured in the FP link. Now its time to do a little homework.....

Thanks for your help guys and gals