Luke Bartley Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 hey i was wondering if anyone has come accross an ecetric yellow before that looks like this. i got with 5 others out of the same tank from the one seller. all the rest are great bar this one. it is bigger than the others and is wanting to dominate the tank if anyone thinks that would have anything to do with it?? what do yas reckon??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Bartley Posted January 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 dam it i just saw the pics, not that great. ill try again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kasman Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 you talking about the blue one?? its not a yellow. lol. some kind of mbuna in colour transformation - yellow to blueish... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Bartley Posted January 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 ya reckon, it has to be ay. dead set im not lyeing. this fish was a yellow mate im tellin ya, next minute its kind of not haha. alright righto lets agree its inbred or something. im new to this sport Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 Species Profiles -- Cichlid-Forum Caeruleus colour morph? Don't know why it would of changed from yellow. I have a female yellow that I pulled from my main colony because she wasnt as yellow as I liked and she throws clutches of white babies. Awesome looking fry and I can't wait to grow them out to full size to have a really good look at them, I have over a hundred about 2 - 4 cms at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
procull Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 Species Profiles -- Cichlid-ForumCaeruleus colour morph? Don't know why it would of changed from yellow. I have a female yellow that I pulled from my main colony because she wasnt as yellow as I liked and she throws clutches of white babies. Awesome looking fry and I can't wait to grow them out to full size to have a really good look at them, I have over a hundred about 2 - 4 cms at the moment. let me get this right you have a sub par elec cream that should be culled ? you have bred her and she threw elec slightly yellows ? you intend to grow the this pus fry out ? what are your intentions with the fry once grown out ? feeders ? my advice and the i would bet the advice of most of this forum would be to cull the female and all the fry TODAY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 You don't quite have it right, she was removed from my breeding colony because she was sub par, I dont cull fish unless they are deformed which pretty much never happens to me. Fish that dont meet my standards go into one of my community tanks or a pond to live out their remaining days. I had stripped a few mouth fulls off of her before she was moved into the pond, the fry are not what I call 'electric creams' they are pure white with black fins I have done some research on it and it seems to be not that un-common. When I finnish this swing I will take some photos they are stunning looking fish as are my breeding yellows, I dont keep **** fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Bartley Posted January 28, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2012 blokes ive found out today that this cichlid is a tropheous flavus righto. it must be a female and is just starting to colour up. dead set im not likeing it one bit ay. it is one big arse bully ha. i found out by rocking up to smiths aquariuarm today and seeing a few there which were very similar and after googeleing the name realized that this was the type. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricksfish Posted January 28, 2012 Report Share Posted January 28, 2012 Hey guys, Just my 2 cents but as far as i knew there were yellow, white and blue color morphs of the elec yellow species. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuffy_rana Posted January 28, 2012 Report Share Posted January 28, 2012 "The "Electric Yellow" morph is just one of almost a dozen different morphologies seen in this species through out the lake. These other morphs go either unnoticed, ignored, or forgotten by most hobbyists because of the omnipresent availability of the "Electric Yellow". This color variant, while more rare in the lake, enjoys a distribution in the hobby that would easily out number the wild population by probably several hundred-fold. In fact, the "Electric Yellow" that is so popular today was only recently discovered (about 15 years ago)." Labidochromis caeruleus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadFishFloating Posted January 29, 2012 Report Share Posted January 29, 2012 If its a yellow its an electric yellow crossed with a saulosi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supercobwe Posted January 29, 2012 Report Share Posted January 29, 2012 If its a yellowits an electric yellow crossed with a saulosi. Possibility is quite high, I have seen Electric Yellow crossed breed with saulosi before. Classic example is the display tank in Sunnybank shopping outside Commonwealth bank does have some female saulosi that are holding with black stripes and somes with black dorsal fin which we all know female saulosi shouldn't have black dorsal fins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odins fish Posted January 30, 2012 Report Share Posted January 30, 2012 electric whites $669ea @3-4cm haha , or white morph electric yellow bit more expensive than common lol come on weve all seen em id say your fish is a mbuna m8 or xbred yellow with mbuna (see the black masking on the face) ,,,,,, oh and ricksfish there are different morphs of yellow but no white or blue ones m8 , blue ones have black bars and are called chismule let me get this right you intend to grow the this pus fry out ? what are your intentions with the fry once grown out ? feeders ? Hey guys,Just my 2 cents but as far as i knew there were yellow, white and blue color morphs of the elec yellow species. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadFishFloating Posted January 30, 2012 Report Share Posted January 30, 2012 I have seen blue and white colour morphs of electric yellows before infact....... caeruleus is latin for blue Species Profiles -- Cichlid-Forum the mbuna in this thread tho looks like one of the many species that starts off yellow and the goes blue/black At one point Andrea Watts posted a map of Malawi with all the Labidochromis caeruleus locality colour morphs on it. pretty awesome variety of them saulosi mix is my guess but as an example heres a msobo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supercobwe Posted January 30, 2012 Report Share Posted January 30, 2012 It wouldn't surprised me that the tank in sunnybank have Msobo female in there as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadFishFloating Posted January 30, 2012 Report Share Posted January 30, 2012 The most common mbuna hybrids I see are johanni/interuptus mixed with something like afra/zebra/auratus/trewavassae etc. One of the big signs its a hybrid is not just when a yellow changes colour as it matures but when it starts to bash the heck out of every single other fish in the tank keep in mind a single egg in a batch can be fertilized by a different male sneaky! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supercobwe Posted January 31, 2012 Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 The most common mbuna hybrids I see are johanni/interuptus mixed with something like afra/zebra/auratus/trewavassae etc.One of the big signs its a hybrid is not just when a yellow changes colour as it matures but when it starts to bash the heck out of every single other fish in the tank keep in mind a single egg in a batch can be fertilized by a different male sneaky! Would love to see Red Zebra+ Electric Yellow+ Demasoni=??????? You tell what they are Donny:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nodalizer Posted February 15, 2012 Report Share Posted February 15, 2012 Its not a cross at all. Pure yellow. Just more blue comming out, happens some times, dun breed from him thou not good stock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...