Id this random vieja

[wildboy5]

Another pic of him

 

[ragin_cajun]

Last pic cinches it--Zonatus all the way. Black line from his tail to his eye. 11 inches--he's not full grown yet. Awesome.

 

[wildboy5]

Last pic cinches it--Zonatus all the way. Black line from his tail to his eye. 11 inches--he's not full grown yet. Awesome.

Thanks dude what size do they top out at? I bought him at 2 inches and 1 year later he's 11 lol

 

[duanes]

Or it could be guttulata (considered by some to be a location variant of zonatus).
If you check the book American Cichlids II Large, by Staeck and Linke, page 21, your fish is almost identical.
While zonatus supposedly comes from rivers flowing to the the Pacific coast in the state of Oaxaca, its sister species guttulata, is from Lake Amatitlan in Guatemala, and more inland in the Mexican state of Chiapas.

 

[wildboy5]

Or it could be guttulata (considered by some to be a location variant of zonatus).
If you check the book American Cichlids II Large, by Staeck and Linke, page 21, your fish is almost identical.
While zonatus supposedly comes from rivers flowing to the the Pacific coast in the state of Oaxaca, its sister species guttulata, is from Lake Amatitlan in Guatemala, and more inland in the Mexican state of Chiapas.

Thanks for the info......and the debate continues lol

 

[LONE_WOLF]

Or it could be guttulata (considered by some to be a location variant of zonatus).
If you check the book American Cichlids II Large, by Staeck and Linke, page 21, your fish is almost identical.
While zonatus supposedly comes from rivers flowing to the the Pacific coast in the state of Oaxaca, its sister species guttulata, is from Lake Amatitlan in Guatemala, and more inland in the Mexican state of Chiapas.

good info