The picture you attached is not melanurus. That is synspilus!
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Best color cichlid?
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The picture you attached is not melanurus. That is synspilus!
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There's nothing I'd like more than to continue calling my 'melanurus', 'synspilus'. but 'synspilus' is considered to be just a color morph of 'melanurus' (same species). A lot of fishkeepers don't agree with this change but apparently DNA analysis says it's the case. Synspilus is considered a junior synonym for 'melanurus' so the new name for Vieja synspilus is Paraneetroplus melanurus (yes, even the genus has been changed, there no longer being Paratheraps or Vieja). You can check these things out on Google. Just enter synspilus melanurus. I've got both forms and to me, they are quite different in so many ways (not just color) that I'm hard put to believe they are the same species - but I'm "going with the flow".
Yes I agree w/ this.
IMO Africans are not as nice and they all look the same. Pikes, parachromis, cichla, angels, discus...it seems there is a lot more varriation in shapes and colors. There are so many more different variants of the same sp. of CA's that make them unique.
But everyone has their preference.
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Awesome color!
I can't pick any one cichlid that has the "best color" - I like too many. Some of my faves though in no particular order are african cichlids, discus, JD and EBJD, GT, Jag, and the vieja cichlids (don't know what the proper name is these days). I usually find that the more I like a fish's behavior the better they look to me.
