No, a pure baby cobalt will not show barring like this guy clearly does. Maybe a blue estherae male juvie, but I don't have any experience with them so I don't know what they look like as juvies.
I really suspect a hybrid too. M. callainos (formerly known as Pseudotropheus zebra "cobalt") with some other striped species (and that could be ANYthing)
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