Cutteri Cichlid?

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The cutter cichlid is a rare Central American cichlid known for being emo and cutting itself. They must be kept with a mini razor blade. Here is a photo:
 

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My male is beating up on the female, does that mean he's getting mad bc she hasnt layed eggs again(they've successfully breed before at LFS)?
 
Straightjacket what is your problem?

Someone said they saw a fish labeled cutteri that didnt look like any cutters they have seen. I posted a picture of a cutteri and a fish that is sometimes refered to as a cutters cichlid. I am not asking people to start calling a setptemfasciatus a cutter, that would be quite confusing. I also stated that these are the reasons why I dislike common names.
Your 1st sentence doesnt make any sense to what I wrote.
 
SMS;1073202; said:
Straightjacket what is your problem?

Someone said they saw a fish labeled cutteri that didnt look like any cutters they have seen. I posted a picture of a cutteri and a fish that is sometimes refered to as a cutters cichlid. I am not asking people to start calling a setptemfasciatus a cutter, that would be quite confusing. I also stated that these are the reasons why I dislike common names.
Your 1st sentence doesnt make any sense to what I wrote.
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I don't have a problem. I'm quite fine. Hows about you? :chillpill:

You posted:
A) "cutters" are C. septemfasciatus and C. cutteri are a different species of the same genus. or at least, this is what you "believe".
I don't believe I'm being rude by pointing that out. If I wanted to be rude I could say somthing sarcastic like "that makes sense". ;)
then you said
B) "cutteri" is the "old name" for C. septem.
Which is untrue. A septem may erroneously be pictured under "cutteri" in books, online profiles and mis-ID'd as such at shops (as is the case with plenty of other species) but it does not mean that it is the usual common name that applies to the species.

I was never disagreeing with you as to the ID of the fish in question. In fact I though I had made it quite clear that I agreed with your input of the fish possibly being a close relative of a "cutteri" if it was not indeed a "cutteri" (that is C. spilurus cutteri and not C. septemfasciatus :D ) in my last post.
Get it?
 
Nice! Got any pix of yours?
 
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