Cichlid Guessing Game, CA/SA Cichlids Only!!
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SouthCentral;449495; said:Sorry guys, I know the rules of the game, but nobody has posted for a while and I have a mystery fish even I don't know what it is. I was going to post it here and see if anybody knew. Can't even say for sure it's new world though, I've had conflicting answers before. If anybody is upset about me posting it here, not an issue, I'll take it down, but if you want a hard one, a good challenge, here it is, go to town on it!!!
Just looking through this thread seeing how many I can get right at first glance, and I came apon this on pg.131. It's almost 5 years later
but I can identify it. Definately Tilapia zilli. Looks just like mine did at around that size. Owner says it was around 10". Here's a couple pics of mine at 13 3/4":
Bear in mind the fish changed quite a bit as it aged. At a younger age it looked just like the pics of T. zilli in Anton Lamboj's book on west african cichlids. When they layed eggs(innitially had a female as well)they were a carbon copy of the pics of T. zilli in breeding dress. As an older fish the red on the belly only apeared in an aggressive or a scared mode. Once I seperated him from the rival male dovii that I had kept him with, I very rarely ever seen the red belly apear again-----only during a water change, removing decor, when he was scared or on the rare ocassion he would get aggressive towards the smaller CA I kept him with.
