View Full Version : My little P. Bleekeri
Vicious_Fish
10-13-2009, 12:23 PM
A few pics of my little Bleekeri that I'm growing out. He was getting beat up by a male Convict in my grow out tank so I moved him into my 100 gallon stock tank with a few turtles. He's doing great in there and growing fast. He loves thawed shrimp and live crickets!
snoopy65
10-13-2009, 12:25 PM
He looks great VF.....I still say you need mine to go with yours!
Vicious_Fish
10-13-2009, 12:34 PM
He looks great VF.....I still say you need mine to go with yours!
Lol, I wish I had the room. Yours is very nice looking, I'm sure you could find a home for it if you posted it up in the Buy or Sell section.
snoopy65
10-13-2009, 12:37 PM
Maybe, but I guess I am a little picky on who gets him, if he leaves......besides, no one seems to want to come and get him and at about 6 1/2-7" he is too big for me to ship.
Vicious_Fish
10-13-2009, 1:15 PM
Maybe, but I guess I am a little picky on who gets him, if he leaves......besides, no one seems to want to come and get him and at about 6 1/2-7" he is too big for me to ship.
I guess I'd be picky too. And I've never shipped fish before so I wouldn't know what to do. That's too nice of a fish to risk shipping anyways.
Vicious_Fish
11-13-2009, 10:22 PM
:D
Vicious_Fish
11-17-2009, 1:05 PM
So do you guys still think this is a Bleekeri? I bought it at "That Fish Place" under that name but the more pictures I see the more I think this is a Polleni. Any thoughts?
he looks very much like a polleni to me. im looking at one right now looks just like him. my bleekerii's spots look different and a different color.
Cichlaholics Anonymous
11-17-2009, 2:36 PM
any chance you have a side picture of it...could be a polleni perhaps
Vicious_Fish
11-17-2009, 2:40 PM
any chance you have a side picture of it...could be a polleni perhaps
Well....not at the moment. I'm growing this guy out in a 100 gallon stock tank. Then he's either going into my 100 or 120 gallon aquarium. In other words, it will be at least a month or two before I can get a good side shot.
Cichlaholics Anonymous
11-17-2009, 3:06 PM
Well....not at the moment. I'm growing this guy out in a 100 gallon stock tank. Then he's either going into my 100 or 120 gallon aquarium. In other words, it will be at least a month or two before I can get a good side shot.
either way, nice fish....doesn't really affect much whether its polleni or bleekeri (in terms of value i suppose)
Vicious_Fish
11-17-2009, 10:31 PM
Thanks. And to be honest I like the small spot look that the polleni's have. :)
darth pike
11-17-2009, 11:43 PM
So do you guys still think this is a Bleekeri? I bought it at "That Fish Place" under that name but the more pictures I see the more I think this is a Polleni. Any thoughts?
Deffinately a Polleni, though I couldn't tell you if itwas small spot or large spot from the angel. Bleekeri doesn't exist anymore, synomonized with polleni recently.
Cichlaholics Anonymous
11-18-2009, 7:47 AM
Deffinately a Polleni, though I couldn't tell you if itwas small spot or large spot from the angel. Bleekeri doesn't exist anymore, synomonized with polleni recently.
I know this is a bit off-topic, but how do you differentiate do you use something like "sp. small spots" or by location?
Vicious_Fish
11-18-2009, 1:49 PM
Deffinately a Polleni, though I couldn't tell you if itwas small spot or large spot from the angel. Bleekeri doesn't exist anymore, synomonized with polleni recently.
See that's what I thought too but I still here people refer to them as "Bleekeri" sometimes.
darth pike
11-18-2009, 1:57 PM
I know this is a bit off-topic, but how do you differentiate do you use something like "sp. small spots" or by location?
No sp, as that is reserved for undescribed species. I usually just see 'polleni small spot' or 'polleni lg spot'.
See that's what I thought too but I still here people refer to them as "Bleekeri" sometimes.
The hobby is slow to adopt scientific changes. Heck, I know people that still use Cichlasoma for centrals and most south americans despite it's restriction to port cichlids 25 years ago. Or people still calling jurupari geophagus despite having their own genus created 20 years ago.