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MoFish78
12-16-2008, 4:18 AM
Bought a fish that's labeled by my LFS as frontosa.
Was looking at this site and found this picture that's very identical to my fish.
http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=1639
mine does that to its fins almost 24-7
i guess i got a fake frontosa eh? :crazy:
Bought a fish that's labeled by my LFS as frontosa.
Was looking at this site and found this picture that's very identical to my fish.
http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=1639
mine does that to its fins almost 24-7
i guess i got a fake frontosa eh? :crazy:
Yeah I almost made the same mistake the other day. Amazing really cause I was looking at the one you got and was like wow yellow in the eyes for a Front?? COOL!!! Then the lady at the PS told me it wasn't a Front.. Its exactly what you have in the link you posted.
Not a Frontosa but I do think the one you have is very cool! Keep him and go back and grab a Front too!! LOL
Easy mistake...
They are also known as False Front or Poor mans Front, but the price for them buy me reflects nothing poor about them.
Watch him as he gets older. They have been known to have a nasty streak. What are his tankmates?
cichlidgirl
12-17-2008, 2:40 PM
Wow, sorry that happened, i would have been super pissed. I would put them in a bucket and bring them back to the store for a refund. Maybe print off that profile page as proof. Im sure a frontosa should have been MUCH more expensive than that fish. I have seen that fish listed for between 5 and 10 bucks each depending on age. It was dishonest at worst and ignorant at best i would not pay for them or keep them unless they have really grown on you and if thats the case i would still see about getting a refund of the price difference. OH, and dont mix a real front with this fish, it will nip the fronts fins bad and is a egg or fry theif i think.
Cichlaholics Anonymous
12-17-2008, 4:50 PM
I actually passed up on a chance to buy some at lfs the other day, they were $9.99 so definitely more inexpensive than fronts
peathenster
12-18-2008, 1:19 AM
picked up a couple of juvies from my lfs not long ago - please tell me they are fronts...how do you tell anyways??
http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo160/peathenster/Frontosa_01.jpg
http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo160/peathenster/Frontosa_02.jpg
cheeseburger
12-18-2008, 1:36 AM
that looks like a front to me but not sure
blkg35
12-18-2008, 3:10 AM
Yep, yours is a burundi frontosa. Nice looking little guy.....:grinno:
peathenster
12-18-2008, 8:17 AM
phew~~~
how could you tell? jut so that I don't get it wrong next time...
kay-bee
12-18-2008, 5:19 PM
One significant difference is that with trets the dorsal fins starts on the white stripe, while with frontosas the dorsal originates on the black stripe.
However, as you become more familiar with either species, they're very easy to differentiate.
Its true. Once you start to see some of them, you start to recognize them all.
MoFish78
12-18-2008, 10:47 PM
Easy mistake...
They are also known as False Front or Poor mans Front, but the price for them buy me reflects nothing poor about them.
Watch him as he gets older. They have been known to have a nasty streak. What are his tankmates?
i have it in a 55g tank with these guys...crap so i got a poor man's front???:WHOA::cry: lol...its pretty cool though...i guess i wasn't meant to have a front bec i learned later on that it's not a good idea to mix fronts with my kind of cichlids?
bowdownto70
12-19-2008, 11:57 AM
yup thats a frontosa.. burundi
picked up a couple of juvies from my lfs not long ago - please tell me they are fronts...how do you tell anyways??
http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo160/peathenster/Frontosa_01.jpg
http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo160/peathenster/Frontosa_02.jpg
Front is not a good idea w/ the Mbuna you have. The Tet. will hold his own if close to size of the others, and is still a very coool fish.
peathenster
12-19-2008, 11:34 PM
i have it in a 55g tank with these guys...crap so i got a poor man's front???:WHOA::cry: lol...its pretty cool though...i guess i wasn't meant to have a front bec i learned later on that it's not a good idea to mix fronts with my kind of cichlids?
Beautiful fish!
gomezladdams
12-20-2008, 12:01 AM
Trets are very cool looking fish and has a better shot at doing well long term in that mbuna tank.So maybe its best.
MoFish78
12-20-2008, 3:27 AM
Trets are very cool looking fish and has a better shot at doing well long term in that mbuna tank.So maybe its best.
that's cool...now im glad it's not a front :) ...with the tank i have now, i guess it would have been a headache in the future if it were a frontosa. thanks fellas. thx muske.
christ4paul
12-25-2008, 6:28 AM
the way you tell between the 2 is fronts have a round front the fake fronts have sharper. also for the fake one there is a teal marking near the mouth and the frontosa's dont.
Red Devil
12-26-2008, 6:42 PM
that's cool...now im glad it's not a front :) ...with the tank i have now, i guess it would have been a headache in the future if it were a frontosa. thanks fellas. thx muske.
yes you are better off.. and fronts really need a colony... they are not always healthy if kept as a loner... so all around i would say your lucky..
MoFish78
12-27-2008, 5:21 AM
thanks! and here she is :)
http://images.mae71.multiply.com/image/2/photos/66/600x600/51/DSC-0434.JPG?et=I5%2BK9A%2C3wigurtNPals3JA&nmid=154167173
MoFish78
12-27-2008, 5:28 AM
http://images.mae71.multiply.com/image/2/photos/66/600x600/59/DSC-0442.JPG?et=yOFFIR575JEJgVRIsfF6rA&nmid=154167173
Red Devil
12-27-2008, 6:49 AM
thanks! and here she is :)
http://images.mae71.multiply.com/image/2/photos/66/600x600/51/DSC-0434.JPG?et=I5%2BK9A%2C3wigurtNPals3JA&nmid=154167173
and she is beautiful...... perfect addition...