pale blue cichlid, black stripes...not a frontosa?

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Fire Eel
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Sorta looks like a powder blue, but I'm not too sure at all.

I picked one up from the local fish store, with a sway-back, and it's cream/yellow until the light hits it, and then this pretty pale blue shows up. The stripes are bars, and are vertical. Thick stripes, pale on the chin area.

It was in with a bunch of yellow cichlids with the same stripes, bright blue ones, and similar fish....I'm guessing Africans??

If anyone has any clues, I'd be appreciative.

BTW, this one is similar, but not quite enough to say for sure.
http://www.gorge.org/fish/pix-2006/socolifi2.jpg
 

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Fire Eel
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To be honest, it's so hard to tell with his sway-back. His dorsal fin is so short, length-wise, I can't really get a good look at it.

I did take a couple of pics, and they're uploading now, but I'm warning you, they're not the best they could be, cuz my pink con was in the way. I'll post them just as soon as they're done.

He looks similar to the last one, but he's more of a cream than a blue ATM.
 

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