I am asking if any one has a good photo of a belly crawler they can post. I do not have a camera to potograph my fish? I want to see if my fish is a belly crawler. He is asleep at this time, I can not give a great ID of him. He is large grumpy fish that only comes out to eat or ask for food. Very drab in color. He does have a ridge with a forehead, it does not slope down to his lips evenly. Thank you
Great pictures Scat! On the ball man!!! Very nice 'bellycrawlers'!!! I've seen a female before though that almost half of her side was red!! It was crazy kewl!! Main thing to look for bro is the ocelli in the dorsal fin, females have it, males don't. Most Saxatilis pikes are the same way.
Great pictures Scat! On the ball man!!! Very nice 'bellycrawlers'!!! I've seen a female before though that almost half of her side was red!! It was crazy kewl!! Main thing to look for bro is the ocelli in the dorsal fin, females have it, males don't. Most Saxatilis pikes are the same way.
Bellycrawler is merely a generic term for a lot of the reticulata group. Over the years I`ve seen semifasciatus, stockii, & a few others come in listed as 'bellycrawler'. HTH.......Keith
Bellycrawler is merely a generic term for a lot of the reticulata group. Over the years I`ve seen semifasciatus, stockii, & a few others come in listed as 'bellycrawler'. HTH.......Keith
I was merely stating that without a pic sometimes it`s like a box of chocolates, you never know what you`re going to get. Just giving him a heads up that it might not be the sp. bellycrawler, & some other ideas of what it MIGHT be. HTH.......Keith
yea i just dug up an old thread but im looking at the pics of the sp. "belly crawler" and the pics above and wondering if one is a cr. sedentaria.
im looking at the pictures of the two males. i noticed this observation in the lfs the other day when i saw a pike and because of the vertical barring, immediately thought belly crawler. then i looked at it some more and the fines had a distinctive yellowish tint and i thought to myself that it looked kinda odd for a belly crawler.
this brings me to the pics above. top picture has that yellowish tint to the fins and i think the snout almost looks like something out of a saxatilis group, altho i dont think is saxatilis. the thing that these two have in common is black vertical barring.
just an observation i have and wondering if one is actually the elusive cr. sedentaria or if this is just a variant. looking for other crenicichlaholics opinions
Very nice 'bellycrawlers'!!! I've seen a female before though that almost half of her side was red!! It was crazy kewl!! Main thing to look for bro is the ocelli in the dorsal fin, females have it, males don't. Most Saxatilis pikes are the same way. 
