Help ID fish

[metal-angel69]

this ciclids come from lake Guajataca in Puerto Rico they are none native species. I want to know what are they. the first 3 pics is the same fish,the other 3 is a diferent fish and i belive is a hybrid , i never seen a yellow one before and the only yellow fishes in the lake are red devils.

 

[newworld]

thats an easy one.....hybrid vieja

 

[fishguts]

id say its a veja of some sorts but i dont think its a hybrid. looks like he just caught it out of the wild.

 

[calicichlid]

It does seem to have a lot of vieja characteristic, but you got me???
If a fish is caught in the wild does that make it impossible to be a hybrid?

 

[fishguts]

It does seem to have a lot of vieja characteristic, but you got me???
If a fish is caught in the wild does that make it impossible to be a hybrid?

no but alot more unlikely

 

[frazzlerock5]

fish do hybridize in the wild. Especially seeing how he said it's a non-native (aka invasive) species, there's a good chance that it is a hybrid. He said that there are red devils in the lake. I could definitely see a vieja/red devil hybrid, especially in that second fish.

 

[darth pike]

But it's not the wild, it's Puerto Rico where no cichlid is native. Thus, dumping two species that would not see each other in their natural ranges and thus not have any behavioral markers that would prevent hybridization like closely related species do when found together naturally.

 

[Sarah88]

yeah +1 on veija/red devil hybrid has body characteristics of vieja but coloring and even some "peeling" occuring on the last fish look red devil

 

[frazzlerock5]

But it's not the wild, it's Puerto Rico where no cichlid is native. Thus, dumping two species that would not see each other in their natural ranges and thus not have any behavioral markers that would prevent hybridization like closely related species do when found together naturally.

Just because this species is non-native, doesn't make it a non-wild environment. This species has a very large habitat in this case, it has to survive and reproduce in order to sustain a population, it has to deal with predators such as alligators, peacock bass, large mouth bass, ospreys, etc. etc. That is classified as wild in my opinion, despite it being an invasive species.

 

[fishguts]

did not pay attention to his location assumed from the pictures he caught the fish from the wild where they thrive.