guess this fish!

[jetchanic]

Alright so i was part of the danumber.... group buy and got 10 more ulwiles to add to my colony.  i have got two fish that look nothing like the rest of my ulwiles. one of them is always colored up like this and the other one is completely black untill it decides to color up.  I was eating dinner and starring at a completely black fish then all of the sudden like a light switch was turned on it decided to color up just like the other fish.  Then in a matter of seconds went completely black again.  I've got a couple other ones that are completely black as well and im interested to see if it turns out like these.  I am thinking that it is a Tropheus annectens (Kekese) or a Tropheus annectens (Lumbye).  let me know what you think.  also know that this fish is full size. 4-5 inches.

[jetchanic]

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these are the links to the species profiles of the annectens

http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=1838

http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=1839

[h0nkzz]

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whatever it is, that troph looks wicked nice !

[jetchanic]

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i know.  this thing is probably one of the nicest looking fish i've seen.  i want a whole tank of them.

[jetchanic]

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i think that i have verified that there are four of them in there now.

[supadave]

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So Jet... is that 4 out of the 10 that you purchased as Ulwiles? If so, are you okay with that?

[jetchanic]

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if they all four of them look like this after they get comfortable and color up then yes im okay with it.  they are pretty incredible looking.  There eyes are much brighter blue then the rest of my fish. in the first picture at the bottom right you can see another one not colored up.  look at the yellow spot on his cheek.

[jeebus]

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We're all starting to find out that we may have some Annecten in our Ulwile order. The thing is that I don't think anyone that's handled these fish before could tell. I certainly couldn't when I was splitting them up earlier today - especially not knowing to look for a different variant of fish.

I think these guys have flown below the radar, through 4 sets of hands! (Exporter, Importer, Will, Myself) and were never picked up on..

Either way, this is definitely a silver lining in today's order.

[jetchanic]

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it is very hard to tell that they are annectens.  none of them were colored up when they were in the bags.

[danumber1stunnar]

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i though it was a variation with them they would look like that then not they have the yellow bars  like Ulwile so thats what i thought they were they were my favoites in the group i thought maybe they were displaying or something.
Will

[jetchanic]

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its all good. def. not ulwiles though.  do you remember how many you saw like this?

[danumber1stunnar]

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there is a pic of the group not all are always that bright you can see in the pic.
not sure on how many there is b/c they were not always that bright.

Will

[imagirlgeek]

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Well, whatever they are, they are some of the prettiest Trophs I've ever seen.

[jeebus]

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I guess we need to figure out how many we ended up getting. Of the 40, it could be as many as 12 to 16!  8O  

[danumber1stunnar]

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i can count 7 0r 8 in the pic in their less colored state.
Will