Can you guess what it is?

[santoury]

They actually look like calvus, indeed. Not gold jags. Choc cichlids (and temporalis) are round, and very brown, or translucent tan/brown)

Sorry to say, but it looks like you got a "mixed bag" of Calvus

Calvus are great fish in their own right.

 

[bigspizz]

here are a few in a 1 gallon they are soooooo small somone has to have the same size calvus and choc on here.....I'm gonna be pissed if they are not what I wanted although I would think a calvus would cost more....

 

[santoury]

I stand correcting myself - Those do look like gold jags

 

[FreshFish]

Here is a link to a juvenile chocolate:

http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/images/Freshwater/hypselecara_temporalis_juvenile_1.jpg

 

[FreshFish]

Try to hold the camera a bit away from the glass to get it to focus. Shine as much light in the tank as you can and don't use flash. Crop to the fish if needed.

 

[bigspizz]

That tank is a tiny 1 gallon if I stand far away they are too small they are 1/2 inch so....not juvie I now stank corected they are like 2 months old....young...

 

[bigspizz]

Here is a link to a juvenile chocolate:

http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/images/Freshwater/hypselecara_temporalis_juvenile_1.jpg

That pic is good but like a 4" fish mine are like frickin larvae....

 

[bigspizz]

You guys think I have this?..... Come on now look at the fish.

 

[bigspizz]

by Lee NewmanPrior to 1986 there were many names being applied in the hobby literature to the so-called "chocolate cichlids." For the cichlid keeper, this made identification very difficult as distinctions among species were unclear, a situation that was resolved when Kullander (1986) placed the group in the newly-created genus Hypselecara. The generic name is derived from the Greek word hypselos (meaning "high"), in reference to the steep profiles of these cichlids, and acara, a colloquial word for cichlid. Kullander (1986) recognized only two species ­ Hypselecara temporalis (Gunther 1862) and H. coryphaenoides (Heckel 1840) ­ placing H. goeldii, H. crassa, and H. hellabrunni in the synonymy of the former and H. niger, H. arnoldi, and H. axelrodi in that of the latter.


I found something to help you two though....

 

[FreshFish]

First few pics looked like this. Maybe stressed a bit.

http://www.wetpetz.com/images/cichlids/altcompadult.jpg