List your top 10 pretties Cichlids
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I cant really give a top 10 because im not much of a cichlid guy but i love earth eaters, especially my satanoperca daemons, 2nd place would be geophagus specie(s).
A good 3rd place would be crenicichla / pike cichlid
4th Peacock bass / cichla.
And after that im lost, im more of a knifefish / oddball predatory fish dude than i know about cichlids. I like characins.
African cichlids look pretty cool sometimes but is not really my thing since both my tanks are rio/amazon biotope.
A good 3rd place would be crenicichla / pike cichlid
4th Peacock bass / cichla.
And after that im lost, im more of a knifefish / oddball predatory fish dude than i know about cichlids. I like characins.
African cichlids look pretty cool sometimes but is not really my thing since both my tanks are rio/amazon biotope.
This look like one I sent out to Virgina as a small juvie
Hmm indeed. I'm wondering same person we are referencing to!? Sent pmThis look like one I sent out to Virgina as a small juvie
I honestly can't find that picture on google anymore and also don't remember the background... but I can tell you the essentials. The black umbees come from the Rio Guatape basin in Colombia. These are not the same as the "gorillus blacks" we have in the hobby as these were crossed with other localities. There was a big ish scandal on that a few years back. There are a few umbee species that are currently under taxonomic revision. The general consensus is that the greens are the true umbriferum, as the holotype for the name umbriferum came from that population. The rio mag umbees are apparently getting their own species, as will at least one more, I can't remember if this was Kronoheros sp. choco (aka Rio Atrato/"red king") or a weird Venezuelan one. Maybe both. I am unsure on the consensus as to what the Rio Guatapes are-- it's either that they're their own species, or they are also umbriferum proper.
