cichla id help?

[fishrmann2]

It might... but I'm not saying anything until they hit at least 3".... When cichla are this small they go through a lot of changes... Around 3-4 inches their body shapes should be pretty much IDable...

As of now... it does have a larger eye, not much of a sloped head... rosettes don't mean anything at that size... So orino, mono or ocellaris... or farm bred! lol When they get a little bigger we'll be able to tell... Odds are Mono/ocellaris... but there were a lot of orinos brought in the past few months... Some people got great deals on orinos!

 

[fishrmann2]

I knew deep down that you weren't sure...

Oh ya... Your just mad cause I wouldn't let you use my quote in your sig...

 

[cichlaguapote]

Oh ya... Your just mad cause I wouldn't let you use my quote in your sig...

No mad I have to look at your sig every time you post and see cichla I can't get ahold of or can't afford...

 

[grmanrocks]

It might... but I'm not saying anything until they hit at least 3".... When cichla are this small they go through a lot of changes... Around 3-4 inches their body shapes should be pretty much IDable...

As of now... it does have a larger eye, not much of a sloped head... rosettes don't mean anything at that size... So orino, mono or ocellaris... or farm bred! lol When they get a little bigger we'll be able to tell... Odds are Mono/ocellaris... but there were a lot of orinos brought in the past few months... Some people got great deals on orinos!

will do, doesnt matter to me either way, but orino would sure be nice
is the larger eye and less sloped head make it seem more mono or orino?

they finished off the cardinals today, so ill have to get feeders tommarow......40 feeder guppies a day for the pack shoudlnt be too bad right? thats $2 a day to keep them fed $14 a week, and $56 a month.....damn i need a job!!!! but theyr totaly worth it

after they get into the big tank ill work on gettin them on shrimp.....

 

[fishrmann2]

is the larger eye and less sloped head make it seem more mono or orino?

That makes it more orino like....

but theyr totaly worth it

Dang right they are!


I wouldn't toomuch on the shrimp until they hit 6".... You can practice though with worms... if they take those, they should take shrimp.

 

[fishrmann2]

No mad I have to look at your sig every time you post and see cichla I can't get ahold of or can't afford...

I am working on it!

 

[grmanrocks]

ya, this is really my first year of ]v[onster type fishkeeping despite 10 years of total fishkeeping experince, and the first time ive been able to use another tank to "growout" some fish for a bigger tank, and i like it scicne i got back into the hobby after abandoning the less ]v[onster aspects of it that i was limited to exploring before i recently plunged back in. so when i decied to try agian, it was bichirs that grappled my attention, and it was my ornate, Snr. Puff that sparked the additcion i now have. i statred with a 30 gallon to grow him out in, then i found my 100 gallon for $50 with the stand at a goodwill it was prehistoric fish that i was drawn to mostly gars and bichirs. after my bichir and gar (approitatly named Spot) i began loooking for some more attractive middle dwelling fish, i bought a NGT and while i am incredibly satisfied awith him and love him to death (he ONLY eats out of my hands), he didnt fit the bill, being rather reclusive himself. then i began to lean more and more to cichlids in general and specifically cichla, i mean iv always liked them, but never really thought id be raising a small pack of them in my bed room, kinda unreal really but walking into my fav LFs and seeing those tems....i just had to have them

whi1e only 8 or so months ago i never imagined id have a 100 gallon tank in my bedroom, im finding a need for more and bigger tanks to house my growing ]v[onsters! this hobby does that to you, right when u think uve got all u could ever want, u need more.lol

to cut it short, i think im gonna enjoy watching these baby ]v[onsters grow up

 

[ZOO YORK 207]

I never thought I would have

2x 55
1x 75
2x 10
1x 15
1x 180

In my bedroom!

 

[benzjamin13]

I'm gonna say it's either a Mono or an Ocell.