Coldwater Datioid?

[knifegill]

Hello, everyone.
Can anyone guess what my new acquisition might be? He looks a lot like a datnioid, but has bold, bright red stripes and spots against a greenish-gold body. His fins are arranged like a bass. His tail's profile is flat and triangular, not forked or lobed. His second dorsal is very round, like a peacock bass's. He is a predator with a huge mouth and protruding lower jaw. My LFS got him at some convention under the name "Chinese Tigerfish". He's a little over two inches long and an inch of it seems to be his head, a strong slope from the first dorsal to the tip of his mouth. He is a voracious feeder and wastes no time in hunting and consuming. He is a coldwater fish, the LFS insists. He likes to wait in floating plants for prey. He is beautiful and I want to make his home the best home it can be for him (or her). Please, oh please, guess so I can Google your guesses and check for photos...

Sorry, but I am unable to make the pictures in my camera appear on the internet. I've tried many times. It just doesn't happen.

Thanks.

 

[Oddball]

Google siniperca

 

[Jesse]

Siniperca chuatsi.

 

[knifegill]

Yep. That's him. Except that he is more beautiful than the pictures I have seen. I checked fishbase to see which species it is, but many descriptions have no picture and don't mention the vibrant red stripes.

I wonder how quickly he'll grow and if he'll eat my Garra Pingi Pingis.

 

[Oddball]

SIniperca sp. can easily swallow fish more than half their own size.