firemouth cichlids

[luvinbluegills]

Even poor quality Firemouths are attractive fish, but high quality specimens under the right light will take your breath away, especially when displaying their throat latch. The blue and green spangles along with the black markings and red throat make them like jewels in the sunlight.

I've only had a few that were very aggressive, most got a long well with other cichlids, barbs and bigger tetras...even angelfish. They color up around 2 and half, three inches, but are really slow growers.

 

[steelshade]

My male grew to be more colorful than my female but his agggression got him in trouble with other fish so he died. female has been doing good for 2 years but she isn't consistantly brightly colored. Some times she vivid other times very dull coloration.

 

[cacichlids]

Thorichthys aureus and ellioti are very similar to firemouths but much more colorful... I believe some people with unusually colorful firemouths might have one of the many variants

The average $2 petsmart thorichthys meeki adult will look like this when not breeding

over black substrate:

 

[Red Devil Horde]

WOW!!!
That 1st FM is a stunner!!!
Mine looked like the 2nd pic.