I have inherited this fish from a friend who had to move and couldn't house the fish or tank in his new place. I was not sure what type of cichlid it is or even if it is a cichlid. Could anyone please identify it and options of a few tank mates that would suit them he is housed in a 4ft tank.
I am really in no place to say as I have very limited knowledge of most cichlids but from the picture, a female peacock of some sort would also be my guess.
If I were a betting man, which I am, I would put my money on the female Aulonocara nyassae, commonly known as the peacock cichlid. She sure doesn't look as good as her brother.
I am sorry guys it took so long to get back to you about the fish i found out it was a brown peacock cichild with really poor colouring. I was left with cichild granules or flakes which he seems to eat very happily what else would improve his colouration?
I dunno what the heck a brown peacock is other than every female peacock out there. You can feed it just about anything and it won't improve its colour, females stay brown. It looks big enough that if it was a male, it would be colouring by now.
Not so much a new species, as a typical made-up LFS name for something that they really have no idea what it actually is
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