id please

[afraone]

hi i bought a group of these victorians they were sold to me as astatotilapia brownae can anyone please help to id this victorian for me.

[afraone]

i take it with the lack of response to my id question that the fish i am asking you to id is in fact a hybred is there anyone that can confirm this for me please as i dont want to waiste time and money growing these on to a breeding size if there not what they were supposed to be plus if they do breed i dont want to have it on my shoulders that i have passed on hybred victorians.
i thank you in advance for any input you can provide
regards afraone

[Christophe de Medeiros]

Hi from the general body form it could be H.brownae but without being 100% sure
xris

[afraone]

thankyou for your responce

[Lisachromis]

Asked around for you, and I got Astatotilapia sp. "tomato" from the Kome Islands.

[dodad]

i think it looks very similar to astatotilipia sp#35 tomatoe, however the sp#35 has three or more egg spots.

[afraone]

thankyou for that i will try and get some more better photos and will post them when i can once again thankyou for the responses

[Lisachromis]

I was thinking it had to do with the barring that goes into the dorsal being the give-away as to H. sp tomato, but I'm just passing along what I've heard.

[dodad]

pundamilia nyereri also have the trait where the vertical baring extends in to the dorsal.

[Woorryvom]

Can you tell me what you are all doing now to upload photos? I spent way too long trying to do this last night. Have done it before through Photobucket no problem. However, since the upgrade, I see you can now upload directly from computer to the forum. Tried this, it first told me they were too big, so went back and did all the laborious re-sizing there must be a quicker way, then only for the system to say "you can only upload 5 photos per post" Anyone got any tips please?

[Juan Artigas]

Please do not use links to pictures off site. Attach pictures to your posts, you can attach as many as 20 pictures per post, make sure each is not larger than 256 KB. as it is the allowance to avoid people having to wait forever for a post to show. Thanks

[sic_4_vics]

I too was think tomato when looking at this pic. how big is the fish in question?

From google search it looks like the brownae have bluish tint in dorsal and this particular one has 3 egg spots:
http://www.nswcs.org.au/article-a-brownae.html

the same here:
http://fishprofiles.com/profiles/marine ... s_brownae/

[afraone]

i got rid of them as i could not get a possitive id on them so thought it best not to breed with them.