LOL!!!High City Rida;4913947; said:
Bro both those names fit him to a T AHAHAHA!!!! They look awsome right now....C.R.E.A.M 15 inches or Better !!!!!!!!!!!
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Bro both those names fit him to a T AHAHAHA!!!! They look awsome right now....
Here are some pinima that were giants. In these photos they were about 5 years old and between 18 and 24 inches. These are re-posts, as are all my Cichla photos. Sorry for reposting older photos. I don't play with Cichla anymore. Anyway, enjoy!
Oh, and here is an 18-inch male temensis (2 years old) from the Rio Orinoco. I had a pair, but someone else wanted them worse then I did so I gave them away.
kendragon;4914415; said:
WESTWINGLBC;4914575; said:
You guys .....I have to ask why not not ?????At least a couple i see you are into pike bigtime a couple Cichla in the tank would look great ..I may be asken to much but how come when guys get oout of cichla it seems most don't ever have or keep them again????Cichlidgeek;4916055; said:
By the way Nice very nice !!!!Cichlidgeek;4916058; said:
wish i had a better camera.... or knew witch one to buy!!!
haynchinook334;4916382; said:
one is around 16, the other is around 13. the smaller one has better colors. as u can see in the pic of the 2 with the azul i dunno why one is growing slower then the other though
HULON;4916362; said:
Not too much, I don't mind, and thanks for the nice words.
For me it became too much after so long. I started keeping Cichla in 1995 and stopped last year (2010) ----- 15 years of keeping almost only one type of fish is a lot of dedication. I would get back into it if I could get Cichla sp. Xingu again. I had them a while back, the thread is here somewhere. I also like those Brokopondo C. ocellaris. To me they are the nicest ocellaris available, and they are the real C. ocellaris. Not the Florida hybrids, which also look nice usually, but are not authentic.
Those C. pinima were imported as C. temensis before we knew any better. They were tiny when I got them, maybe 3 inches or so at best. There were only 6 in the box, and they were super expensive at the time. I had a lot of fun with Cichla, and raised many to be more than a few years old. I wish more people actually kept the Cichla they buy to see them into adulthood, they would get a whole new perspective on what a special fish they really are. The next time I keep them I will again do it for the long haul, rather than just the flavor of the month, which is what I started do when more people wanted the fish. In the late 90's you could only get C. monoculus, C. ocellaris (Guyana), and once in a great while a C. temensis would come through....usually alone or maybe two in a box.
Pike cichlids are old to me, and now new to me again. They are a lot of fun and have interesting behavior. Since keeping Cichla for so long I was not able to keep other fishes that I desired. Pike cichlids fit in smaller tanks and thus I can keep even more pike cichlids!!! It's a win-win situation for me!!!
I hope people keep their Cichla for a long time rather than trade them out for babies when the going gets rough. Here is what happens when you keep Cichla orinocensis for a few years
