identification Sciaenochromis ahli or Sciaenochromis fryeri

[Spindoctor]

Struggling to identify one oof my fish, since I have got photographs
of both ahli and fryeri and they can look very similar, shop that sold
it to me wasn't completely certain as they took it off someone as it
was getting a bit agressive, I found that when it was first put into
the tank is was fairly shy (the tanks is dominated by a 8in venustus
who does a good job of keeping order), but when I did a recent
reorganisation and introduce three fish that had a lot of blue he when
through a major character change - at present its in isolation and I
will reintroduce it in a couple of weeks to see if this takes the edge
off his agression


The firsh is an attractive darkish metallic blue, with a whitet strip
running from above the eyes to to top of his tail, the anal fin is
showing some colour but not yet very strong, fish is about 4in long.

When scared it burrows into the substance, if that helps.

With regards


Brian

[Elaine T]

Spindoctor wrote:
> Struggling to identify one oof my fish, since I have got photographs
> of both ahli and fryeri and they can look very similar, shop that sold
> it to me wasn't completely certain as they took it off someone as it
> was getting a bit agressive, I found that when it was first put into
> the tank is was fairly shy (the tanks is dominated by a 8in venustus
> who does a good job of keeping order), but when I did a recent
> reorganisation and introduce three fish that had a lot of blue he when
> through a major character change - at present its in isolation and I
> will reintroduce it in a couple of weeks to see if this takes the edge
> off his agression
>
>
> The firsh is an attractive darkish metallic blue, with a whitet strip
> running from above the eyes to to top of his tail, the anal fin is
> showing some colour but not yet very strong, fish is about 4in long.
>
> When scared it burrows into the substance, if that helps.
>

That's gonna be hard since they're the same fish. ;-) Konings
redescribed the fish and named it S. fryeri in "A revision of the genus
Sciaenochromis Eccles & Trewavas, 1989 (Pisces, Cichlidae). Cichlids
Yearbook v. 3: 28-36."

http://www.aquatic-hobbyist.com/profiles/freshwater/cichlids/electricblue.html
explains the renaming very nicely at the bottom of the page under
Miscellaneous.

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[Spindoctor]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:26:38 GMT, Elaine T >
wrote:

>Spindoctor wrote:
>> Struggling to identify one oof my fish, since I have got photographs
>> of both ahli and fryeri and they can look very similar, shop that sold
>> it to me wasn't completely certain as they took it off someone as it
>> was getting a bit agressive, I found that when it was first put into
>> the tank is was fairly shy (the tanks is dominated by a 8in venustus
>> who does a good job of keeping order), but when I did a recent
>> reorganisation and introduce three fish that had a lot of blue he when
>> through a major character change - at present its in isolation and I
>> will reintroduce it in a couple of weeks to see if this takes the edge
>> off his agression
>>
>>
>> The firsh is an attractive darkish metallic blue, with a whitet strip
>> running from above the eyes to to top of his tail, the anal fin is
>> showing some colour but not yet very strong, fish is about 4in long.
>>
>> When scared it burrows into the substance, if that helps.
>>
>
>That's gonna be hard since they're the same fish. ;-) Konings
>redescribed the fish and named it S. fryeri in "A revision of the genus
>Sciaenochromis Eccles & Trewavas, 1989 (Pisces, Cichlidae). Cichlids
>Yearbook v. 3: 28-36."
>
>http://www.aquatic-hobbyist.com/profiles/freshwater/cichlids/electricblue.html
>explains the renaming very nicely at the bottom of the page under
>Miscellaneous.

Actually that makes me feel a lot better, if I had much hair left I
woud have been pulling it out by now, since the books I have got are
someone confusing on the issue

Many thanks

Brian