any ideas

[mr giant gourami]

was in my lfs today and seen what i think was a cichlid it was dark black and around 18" anyone have any idea what it could be the chap there said is was a butter fish but the pics i seen of them look nothing like this fish

 

[thefishguy7]

It may have been tilapia buttikoferi. They're large, black cichlids with white/yellow vertical bars. However, this fish originates from West Africa, not central America. I doubt it was 18" if it was actually this fish.

Other possibilities include:
giant gouramy (osphronemus goramy)<--not a cichlid
low grade flowerhorn<--not a cichlid
stressed oscar (astronatus ocellatus)

^Not all of the fish above reach 18", slight exaggeration on the size??

 

[Adam-011]

a Flower Horn is a Cichlid rob lol Just a Hybrid.

 

[thefishguy7]

a Flower Horn is a Cichlid rob lol Just a Hybrid.

Hybrids aren't cichlids, or at least they aren't in my book!

 

[Hawkfish3.0]

Hybrids aren't cichlids, or at least they aren't in my book!

So if two humans of different races procreate they don't create a human?

By your logic, that's what I'm getting.

 

[japes]

So if two humans of different races procreate they don't create a human?

By your logic, that's what I'm getting.

It's actually more like an Ape and a Human procreating, not two different races, so no.

I'm going with it being a Butti.

 

[Modest_Man]

So if two humans of different races procreate they don't create a human?

By your logic, that's what I'm getting.

*Bangs head on desk*

 

[balton777]

So if two humans of different races procreate they don't create a human?

By your logic, that's what I'm getting.

It takes two different species of cichlids to create a hybrid. Two humans are the same species. If a human bred with a different species and the hybrid offspring survived, they would not be human.

(Sorry to derail.)

 

[labiatus55]

ive seen butterfish in my lfs!! lol buttekoferi!! haha

 

[Hawkfish3.0]

I realize that wasn't the greatest example but, the fact is that two cichlids will create a cichlid. It doesn't matter what species the two mating cichlids are, the offspring are still cichlids.

I guess a better example would have been to use breeds of dogs, the resulting offspring would still be a dog.

Sorry about this derail, just wanted to clarify what I was trying to get at.