curious about a african

i was at a local petstore and some fish I liked so I figured I would google them to see if I truly liked them , I googled them and didnt find them. Anyone ever heard of a diamond scale hap and would happen to know there scientific name ?

http://www.african-cichlid.com/Lake_Victoria.htm

See it in that list haha?

I'll let you know in a few hours hahah

I would have thought you and flipper would know the fish I was talking about

I think I have seen these. They ring a bell but in the distance.

there in the african section row on the salt side 2nd group on the end , 3 tanks left of the dolphins which i was also looking at.

That had some weird hap hybrid up there too,they were asking for money for them as well!lol a lot of money. Is that what you are talking about?

I have not been there for my monthly frozen food restock yet so I can't say I remember them haha.

they were 11.99 : / so I don't know if those are the ones you are talking about , I'm kinda hoping they are not hybrids but at this point I'm not sure lol

If only I can find them in this list hahah

http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/category.php?cat=1

Well saw these hybrids they were like an inch maybe 1.5 and they wanted 19.99 for one. They were labled as a hybrid. I lost my faith in that store.

This is totally new on me. It sounds like a name someone made up for a hybrid - I wish the LFS would use scientific names and then put the common name in quotes or something, but that's a pipedream!

they were not listed as a hybrid just:

diamond scale hap. "when adults some of the scales turn iridescent"

They are all black with like grey pattern on them no color at all.

TankGirl wrote:

This is totally new on me. It sounds like a name someone made up for a hybrid - I wish the LFS would use scientific names and then put the common name in quotes or something, but that's a pipedream!

They usually do I just didn't look haha my bad

Well keep in mind that they also are quite often mistaken when naming their fish. Haha.

all the time lol , i tried to help out the pet store near my house to label something just kinda just got shrugged off lol ITS A JACK DEMPSEY NOT A CONVICT !!!!! i know since it was one of the ones i gave out free on craigslist hahaha fool , still pisses me off that ppl come get fish then trade them in within a week at a local pet store ..... scum

Sounds like you may be referring to a nimbochromis species they are haps and get pretty big over time i believe there are like three different species that i have seen venustus and polystigma and livingstoni...

i have one male hap there very beautiful my profile picture is the male hap

Hey I was just there and the only 'diamond' like one I saw was Placidochromis electra

http://www.seriouslyfish.com/profile.php?genus=Placidochromis&species=electra&id=594

Hmmm looks close theres were black tho lol , I am just going to buy a few .... i guess ill wait till wednesday for the discount

Yeah might as well. I kind of forgot you said it was black and it turned colors as it aged. The problem with that is how many fish do exactly that lol. O well maybe once you get a good picture we can ID it haha.

Well i shall do that on wednesday lol

I went up to aj and looked at them again , I took a video but i have no idea where it went but I'm kinda thinking they may be something like this

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/ca/volume_6/volume_6_1/placidochromis.htm

"placidochromis phenochilus"

I believe that is what they are now to decide to get some or not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ula2jg80dI8

It sounds like a hybrid to me. I have kept haps of all sorts before and never heard of this cichlid . If you are still wanting to purchase this fish, if you just want it as a show fish, then I guess it will be fine but some people are not into hybrids at all. I love the tropheus that I keep and hybrids in this fish would be a crime!!!! The purer the breed, the more beautiful the fish and their behavior. Hybrids tend to go a little snakey and tend to get sick often.Their immune system are not as strong. Try to stay pure.