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[Fishes33]

Another ID please!

Looks like an eyebiter, but I don't think it is, looks like a compressi calvus, but the head is half of the body size and no dots on the body...

What is this fish beside the flagtail?

Thank you!

 

[mike dunagan]

Well it looks under feed. So that makes the head look bigger. It is a "Hap" of some type. So it is not likely from lake Tanganyika

 

[Marius]

Just feed them good stuff.

 

[Bogwoodbruce]

Im thinking it could be a baysnook P. Splendida. the body shape doesnt look like, compressiceps, calvus or anything like that

 

[tydus]

Where did you get this fish? I believe the fish is a pyxichromis orthostoma which come from lake nawampasa, a satellite lake north of lake victoria. They are a very piscavorous victorian species. These fish are an ambush predator and will try to snatch fish into its huge mouth which explains the big head. They are quite a rare species.

 

[Ullopincrate]

I don't know the fish but it's very cool looking. It looks like it could be a compressicep cousin.

 

[mike dunagan]

You may be right Tydus. I thought it looked familiar. I was reading an article on the a year or two ago. Pretty cool fish.

 

[Fishes33]

I got it from a fish store that is specialize in cichlid

This comes from a tank of cichlid that were named "Unknow Cichlid" $4.99 each, I thought its cool and just bought it

The owner did mention it's some kind of Victorian and some Hap species.. but honestly, I know nothing about African Cichlid, so I am hoping I can get an ID of this fish

 

[Aquai]

Looks a bit like a cichlid in a shop near me, think he said it was a madagascan cichlid.

 

[FLESHY]

Sweet fish! It has a similar body configuration to my "Eye-biters" when I had some. But mine had a lot brighter coloration. Probably not the same, but related?