I need help in identifying these fish

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Steve28
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New fish got this tank need help in identifying what there names are please I no there malawi

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I'm rubbish at id'ing cichlids, but the second pic looks more like a jewel cichlid than any malawi I've seen. ;)
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Same as plankton :D
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The blue mbuna is a Pseudotropheus demasoni. The top one kind of looks like a Protomelas taeniolatus with little colour. The last is a jewel cichlid.
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fr499y wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2020 10:33 am The top one kind of looks like a Protomelas taeniolatus with little colour.
A female then... or are immature males the same?
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Blue one looks like a blue dolphin moorii
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PaulVerrall wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2020 11:16 am Blue one looks like a blue dolphin moorii
Definitely not. Wrong shape and wrong mouth type. :)
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black ghost wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2020 11:13 am
fr499y wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2020 10:33 am The top one kind of looks like a Protomelas taeniolatus with little colour.
A female then... or are immature males the same?
Can't say, never kept them myself! Looks like the lights off for pictures, tends to dull the fish a bit!
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