Help Identify Aulonocara!

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OK, So im going to go out on a limb and say this one is a male.
It has the bigger heads like my males, my females usually have more shallow heads.

his top most fin has a distinctive red or almost dark orange stripe at the very tip.

his coloring is brownish, yellowish, very day.
if you look really closely you can see some barring on his body.


any idea on what this one could be?
ive been trying to find out for about 4 months now.


i can snap more pics and a video but my battery is dying.

probably female. unless theres blue speckles then they most likely are female. ive been SOL like that a few times before. its a bummer but it is what it is.

Anthraxx wrote:probably female. unless theres blue speckles then they most likely are female. ive been SOL like that a few times before. its a bummer but it is what it is.

You kinda lost me with this post.
The body shape looks more like a male to me.
its body matches my dominate males perfectly.
its fins are just rounded... :/


looks like a hermaphrodite !

doesnt look like any Aulonocara ive ever seen.... It doesnt even look like a rift lake fish... maybe its just the picture??? try to get some more shots, better lighting, or use a flash.

body shape means nothing unless your trying to ID a specific variant or something similar. if its boring and bland its a female. males will have some blue even if they hide among the girls. but as sandnuka pointed out it honestly doesnt appear to be anything african. so idk. maybe a tank jumper or something like that. GL figuring it out.

More pics coming up. Actually ill take a small video too.

I agree with anthraxx on the color too, especially in auloncara.... unless we are talking american cichlids... like the red terror (festae) female is far more colorful than the male...

Looks like Ive seen this kinda fish before.... except it was silver/blue.... but same body.... think it was a talapia of some kind, Im gonna look thru threads. lol

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this is what i was thinking of, and now that I look at them close there not even close... lol... this doesnt help ID your fish... good luck

Nope, not the same fish at all.

i may be wrong when i say its a male, it could be a female, but i can say for sure it is an aulonocara. I went down to wildside on canyon road where i got all of my other aulonocaras.

unfortunately they dont label their fish that well.
they kinda tell you what they are when they bag them but that is about it.



video coming up shortly.