Butterfly Peacock bass (cichla occellaris)

[snookn21]

I took the time to take a few more pictures of the peacocks before they go off to their new homes Tuesday The nice spangeled male seems to have paired off with the nice green guyana looking peacock. He and she are starting to run the tank. He is also starting to get a bump on his head These Butterfly peacocks dont waste no time folks. Enjoy the Pictures. Thanks, John

 

[HULON]

Wow !! those guys are going to make some people very happy

 

[MFM]

I want a m/f pair!! Do you have any from 13-15 inches? I probably cant get them now though.

They are very nice!

 

[acipenser22]

Great pics

 

[cichla81]

very nice

 

[jgentry]

Awesome looking fish John. I'm so glad I jumped on getting 2 of them. Any idea which ones you have picked out for me.

 

[snookn21]

Well you paid for the 2 real nice spotted ones JD. But I would advise taking the girl he paired up with. Then you can possibly have a breeding pair of cichlas. I usually dont see them form a hump until they spawn or are ready to spawn. They havent trained over to fish filet yet, but they are eating nice size feeder goldfish that Im stuffing full of food. Its your choice, I believe the other heavily spotted butterfly is a female as well, just not the one he picked. Id go with these 2 :

 

[jgentry]

The one he chose is fine John. Just means someone else is going to get one awesome female.

 

[snookn21]

In my eyes they are both awesome JD

 

[jgentry]

In my eyes they are both awesome JD

Very true. I've got a good sized group of goldfish I'm feeding to get ready for them. Hopefully they will take prepared foods pretty quickly.