Fish identification
- Thread starter Rubester
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It’s beautiful whatever it is and I wouldn’t mind keeping it in the future, hopefully duanes or gourami swami knows what it is. Or perhaps
dan518
knows what it is.
dan518
knows what it is.
My guess would be bimaculatum or dimerus. Definitely an acara of some sort, a few of those species look pretty similar though. Nice fish
Here is a Cichlasoma dimerus I had to compare, maybe the OPs fish needs to settle in to show true colors.
And I agree with GS looks to be an Aequidens, or Cichlasoma, or some other Acara. The spot on the caudal (being mostly in the upper half) as opposed to covering the entire height of the caudal lends itself to being South American, as opposed to Central/North American cichlids.
And I agree with GS looks to be an Aequidens, or Cichlasoma, or some other Acara. The spot on the caudal (being mostly in the upper half) as opposed to covering the entire height of the caudal lends itself to being South American, as opposed to Central/North American cichlids.
This is an interesting dilemma, because yesterdays shot had the long horizontal band, but today's show the vertical dark band book ended with two white vertical bands.
I went over photos of all the genera that seemed close, and todays shot almost appears to be from the genus Krobia,
K guiniensus has the long almost unbroken horizontal band
and on the other hand, K potaroënsis sports the two vertical white bands around a mid body darker blotch, but neither species quite matches, and both show much more brown and other colors.
OP, Your substrate is very white, and very bright, so I wonder if it is influencing the fish to "not" show true colors.
Often a bright, white substrate causes fish to wash out, especially when in new to a tank (for them).
I went over photos of all the genera that seemed close, and todays shot almost appears to be from the genus Krobia,
K guiniensus has the long almost unbroken horizontal band
and on the other hand, K potaroënsis sports the two vertical white bands around a mid body darker blotch, but neither species quite matches, and both show much more brown and other colors.
OP, Your substrate is very white, and very bright, so I wonder if it is influencing the fish to "not" show true colors.
Often a bright, white substrate causes fish to wash out, especially when in new to a tank (for them).