Chocolate Cichlid (Hypselecara temporalis)

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celebrist said:
Solo chocolate keepers:
How much color are you seeing? I would like to get one as a center piece for my community tank but not if it is going to be drab
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Is this drab enough for you, lol. It's only young, about 6". The "chocolate" reference would suggest brown, and yes they certainly can show shades of brown. But imo that's being a little unfair on them.

I think a better name for them would be the "autumn" cichlid. As they mature the rustic autumn colours of a forest are really dominant. Reds, golds, olive green, copper, and they all intermingle into one another.

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esoxlucius said:
Is this drab enough for you, lol. It's only young, about 6". The "chocolate" reference would suggest brown, and yes they certainly can show shades of brown. But imo that's being a little unfair on them.

I think a better name for them would be the "autumn" cichlid. As they mature the rustic autumn colours of a forest are really dominant. Reds, golds, olive green, copper, and they all intermingle into one another.

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Color on that guy reminds me of a rainbow cichlid!
Another one that changes colors like, well, a rainbow!
 
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Here's a pic of mine a short while ago. The colour variation is astonishing in these fish. Mine can go dark like yours too on occasion. I keep trying to read it's moods by its colour. It seems happy all the time yet keeps morphing, lol

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I haven't yet seen mine go full red. Yours has the red face where mine shows green.
 
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