Although "eye biter" may be an over statement (they should be called sale biters), in the book The Cichlid Fishes by George Barlow 2000,
Ripping scales and fin membranes off other fishes is called lepidophagy
"the genus Perissodus are so specialized that their members have snouts bent to the left or right to varying degrees. The bias is genetically set and the crooked snouts can be seen in fry. Remarkably the attacker can launch a strike only toward the side in which the jaw is bent."
Females of one species may mimic a female of another in order to tear off a mouthfull of scales from a male and speed off.
On a side note, I may label 1 of my bag of red ceibals simply "red ceibals" at the next auction, and another bag "red super collider ceibals" to see if it makes a difference in the bidding.
Or instead of simply Gymnogeophagus balzani, I think they should be called Gymno "electric yellow super KOK battering scull world of war"balzani.
but I digress.
Jim ---you must be old like me, I started collecting cichlids in the late 50s
Ripping scales and fin membranes off other fishes is called lepidophagy
"the genus Perissodus are so specialized that their members have snouts bent to the left or right to varying degrees. The bias is genetically set and the crooked snouts can be seen in fry. Remarkably the attacker can launch a strike only toward the side in which the jaw is bent."
Females of one species may mimic a female of another in order to tear off a mouthfull of scales from a male and speed off.
On a side note, I may label 1 of my bag of red ceibals simply "red ceibals" at the next auction, and another bag "red super collider ceibals" to see if it makes a difference in the bidding.
Or instead of simply Gymnogeophagus balzani, I think they should be called Gymno "electric yellow super KOK battering scull world of war"balzani.
but I digress.
Jim ---you must be old like me, I started collecting cichlids in the late 50s
. I got my first fish (Platys) in 1954.
