anything besides pikes

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There are multiple fish of Central American descent that appear to be mixes of Amphilophus and maybe Vieja or Herichthys species. They do not all look the same, and there looked to be a couple of pairs where the male and female were of very different color morphs. It is POSSIBLE that they are somehow part of the midas cichlid complex, maybe something out of the Nicaraguan crater lakes, but they were not identifiable to me as any species of Amphilophus that I have seen pictured on Jeff Rapps' site or seen in the Willem Heijns video "Nicaragua: Cichlids from the Crater".

Regardless of whether they occur in nature or not (which again I doubt, they look like hybrids to me), they DO NOT LIVE IN THE AMAZON unless someone has introduced them there as an exotic species.

And I don't think they are Amphilophus trimaculatus because the females of the 2 pairs I saw were colored more like a red devil (citrinellus or labiatus) and from my understanding a trimac female takes on a dark color form when paired with a male. The males also did not exactly have all the dark markings behind and above the eye and at the rear to the top of the tail that are characteristic of a trimac. However the males did have close to the trimac body shape so I figured flowerhorn as soon as I saw them.

If I get back to the Amazon exhibit soon I'll try to take pictures this time. The stingrays, arowanas, arapaimas, pacus, natural discus, etc. at the Amazon exhibit should be well documented for all to see. Come to think of it I need to go picture crazy for you guys soon as I might be moving and forced to take down some of my tanks that I haven't even posted anything of yet...
 
Fly fishing, catch and release wild trout and steelhead.
Fly tying just because I know how and I am not paying $2.50 for something I can make in five minutes and $0.25.

I live in a flyfisherman's paradise.
 
Hey Salty, I know you said you work out of St. Louis and you drive
90 miles one way.
Where do drive in from, I drive bout 70 miles south of St. Louis,
Desloge area. St. Francois County.
 
about 90 miles east straight out interstate 70 near effingham ill
 
Then you are not all that far from Springfield, Ill. Do you know if they have any good shops in Springfield. I would think Chicago does,
but have never been there. I heard there is some nice distributor/Hatcheries there.
 
If the right ones come in I would still do it.:D
 
springfield is about an hour or so north, terre haute indiana is about 90 miles east and st louis to the west i usually do all my fish shopping in vandallia ill he doesnt carry alot of stuff as far as cichlids but can order me most anything and hes a real nice guy just cant get him to find pikes yet
 
ShadowStryder;856797; said:
If the right ones come in I would still do it.:D
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100%. The problem is gettin you tenative guys to get in on the order. Most of the time its just Oddball and I that do the group orders together. Perhaps that will change. How far away from Blytheville, AR are you guys? Its about 3hrs and 20 minutes from me. Halfway. My parents are moving to St. Louis though, so I will be up there A LOT more! Perhaps we shall meet after all! ;)
 
I am only bout 3hrs 15 min away from Blytheville. I imagine Salty is close to 5 hrs. I would definitely make the trip for the right order.
 
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