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About three months ago i bought a cichlid. I have an electric yellow in my tank, and when i went to the fish store they had a ton of electic yellows in a tank with alot of fish that were much similar except blue. I asked and was told that they were basically the same fish, so i bought one. All it had on the tag stuck to the tank was the long name, which i obviously don't remember. I had just assumed that the fish i got was an electric blue, seeing as how it was in with the electric yellows. Today, after doing some research, i'm wondering if i didn't perhaps buy a blue cobalt that day?
He looks more purple in my tank than blue, and has some pretty distinct darker stripes running vertically down his sides, much like a zebra. Is this a cobalt blue or an electric blue and how do you tell?

Could be a conict or an electric blue

It could also be a blue Labidochromis caeruleus - Electric yellow's just a color variant of an often blue species (they have other morphs, too).

The best way to tell is looking at photos. The FP profiles are a good place to start, the cichlid-forum profiles, and the Google image search.

-Molly
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The blue morphs of the yellow labs are pretty rare from what I know - at least in Oz?

But if it looks similar in body shape to the electric yellow, it isn't an electric blue. Electric blues, being haps, have a different body shape to mbuna. There are dozens of species of mbuna which are blue though, so it would be almost impossible to say which you have without seeing pics!

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Possibly a Pseudotropheus Socolofi??

Same as Lab C. but blue?

Can't speak for Canada necessarily, but the blue morph isn't too uncommon around here - I'd never see it in a chain, but a couple of LFSs have had them. I'm even starting to see Perlmutts in stores, albeit fairly bad quality ones.

-Molly
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I've seen the white morph here in canada, twice.
The Blue, once....

Ps. Socolofi, though is identical to Lab C. only powder blue with black to the fins.

Pearlmutts where i am at least are very common