This species of Thorichthys is often referred to as the Yellow Firemouth (or even worse, Yellow Meeki, argh!) By connecting it to a long term, mainstay cichlid like the Firemouth (in the minds of some fish sellers), should serve to improve its marketability. It's a shame that it hasn't yet achieved more notoriety of it's own though because it is a fish that is outstanding in its own right. Hopefully that will change. Here are a few pictures of one of my two pair. They have decided it's time to spawn and have staked out a territory, anchored by a rock, right in the middle of the 90G tank. They have been letting the other inhabitants know that they mean business, but, as with the other members of this genus, it consists of mostly gill flaring and posturing with no real damage resulting. Here are some stills of the pair.
