What kind of Haplochromis is it?

[hypselecara]

What kind of Haplochromis of Victoria could be?
It must be sud adult one.

[Greg Steeves]

Hi

This is still a very young fish. It is a male just beginning to show adult coloration. Unfortunately I am unable to tell with certainty the exact species as there are a few cichlids that I have seen this coloration in at the beginning of sexual maturity. Some of the solid colored Paralabidochromis such as sp. "fire" and many of the Xystichromis like phytophagus and sp. "day glow" also go through this body morph/color phase when young. Give him a couple more months to fill out and we can probably take a more accurate guess.

[hypselecara]

thanks Greg.
I'm guessing it could be a H. sp 44..... is it possible?

[Endymion]

It hasn't got the right body to be a sp. 44, I think it look most like a day glow.

[patrickeriksson]

I doubt that it's a "Dayglow". The head looks almost right except for the proportion of the eye, and the body looks too slender.

I have attached some pictures of my Xystichromis sp. "Dayglow" as a reference.

First picture is of a young male starting to color. Second picture is the same male, first spawn (female at the bottom left). Third picture is pretty recent of two males fighting.