Can any of you identify this fish properly?

When I first got it I thought it was one of these two...

www.aquariumlife.net/profiles/cichlidae/...top-hongi/100024.asp
www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=1911

But as it has grown no lines have appeared on the body.

I actually bought another much later, as a match for the first, who then did show up with lines.

if possible can you get a better pic of your fish. its a little to far from the camera to really see its markings.

I posted that one, because it's the first time I got a decent pic of the bloody thing.

You might want to try clicking on the image.

SauRoN wrote:




that is how we fish keepers become good photographer.
i myself had taken a hundred shot before i could post
a good one. the irony is when you are not ready, the
fish pose nice and steady... but when you want to take
a shot, they alway move fast.... what we got are always
a bloody blurred pictures.......

here's a bad pic of my hongi



your fish looks more like a Pseudotropheus sp."perspicax orange cap"

www.riftlakes.com/cichlids/pseudotropheu...ax_orange_cap_e.html

smikeb wrote:


Indeed it does look more like the one posted in your link.

Oddly enough however I think the fish I originally tried to "match" to this one is in fact the same as the one in your photo, but still very young and doesn't quite have the colour yet so I can't be sure.

you just have to wait and see:)