"Steve Wolstenholme" wrote in message
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On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:06:39 +0800, Jim Morcombe
wrote:

I have been selling a few of my "Electric Blues" to a LFS for very
little money. I tried another today and he looked at my fish and said
they weren't electric blues. He noticed there were "dots" on the side
of some and said they must be a hybrid with a peacock. He then showed
me his Electric Blue and showed me a reference book with a picture of a
Sciaenochromis fryeri.

Researching the net, mine are definitely Scianochromis ahli - both the
male and the female match pictures on the web exactly. However, how do
I explain the "spots" on some of the juveniles.

Does anyone have any knowledge of Sciaenochromis Ahlis?

S. ahli and S. fryeri are the same fish. Ahli was the original name.

I bred hundreds from wild stock about 30 years ago supplying shops. I
don't remember black dots on them. They get a bit less colourful when
breeding from tank bred stock and may show marks but I never noticed.
They are quite distinct from peacocks - much slimmer for starters.

Steve


I have only been breeding lecky blues for about 9 years
but I have bred quantity of them and white knight melanistic variants
In my experience black marks are quite common and have never remained into
adult hood on my fish
I am however in Australia here so frok knows how good our stock is.
I was told they were icebergs when I got the starters of the colony
Have mixed maybe 6 or 7 other blood lines into them
fry have the occassional mark
ah well
Would be spewing to learn it was a fault in me bloodline but I have pumped
out thousands of them and never been pulled up
Only complimented W000000t
An easy way to tell lecky blues from blue coloured peacocks is to look for
the cones. Only peacocks have the cones (where 'auloncara' (sp?) comes from)
that they use to find prey
lecky blues have no cones
Oh how I would like to get some wild stock
that would be very nice

Swarvegorilla