After a 6 hour road trip...

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the_deeb;4682831; said:
Haha, there was an airpump connected to the bucket during the trip. The fish arrived alive and safe.

I guess you're right - it's a bit too difficult with nothing but a bucket to go off of. Here a pic of them during acclimation. Seemed a bit too easy so I added a bit of a focal blur to try to make it a little more challenging.

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Ahahah... Yeah I was just kidding bud...
I would wanna say some kind of pike cichlids? Or mix of them and some jack dempseys... =-)
 
the_deeb;4683204; said:
Wow, I thought it was pretty easy but some of those guesses are way off. We do, however, have a winner:



5 Toxotes microlepis :)

Here's a pic right after they were introduced last night.

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Love them!
I was just looking at pictures for this fish. Some have the traditional vertical bars that archers have. But some pictures show them to have horizontal like patterns almost like the Toxotes blythii.
 
great pick up!!
 
MyGiants;4683370; said:
I was just looking at pictures for this fish. Some have the traditional vertical bars that archers have. But some pictures show them to have horizontal like patterns almost like the Toxotes blythii.
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Do you happen to have links to those pics? Archers are one of those fish that are frequently misidentified in pics on the web. I've personally never seen microlepis with horizontal stripes and, AFAIK, horizontal stripes are a pretty unique feature of T. blythii (though up till now there have only been 2 pics of blythii on the web and Fugupuff's recent pics show that juvenile blythii have vertical banding quite similar to some of the other species).

T. jaculatrix are pretty easy to identify because of the even bars. T. microlepis and T. chatareus both have alternating large and small bars but the bars on T. microlepis seem to be more uneven. The best way to distinguish T. microlepis is probably the presence of two distinct blotches on the back of the dorsal fin. Neale Monk's page is almost certainly the best resource on the net for IDing these guys: http://homepage.mac.com/nmonks/Projects/FAQ/3c.html

Anyways, here are some more pics of my guys from this morning.

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