I.D this please

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GreenTerror7

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Sep 29, 2011
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I bought this guy over the weekend but I don't know what he is, looks kind of like a jack Dempsey but I know it's not. Anyone have any idea?

Fins are a bit nipped from the LFS, the mark on his eye is a scratch on the glass or something floating in the water

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This one stumped me. I don't think it's Aequidens or Andinoacara because the horizontal black stripe in those species runs in a mostly straight line down the middle of the fish and connect with the spot on the caudal peduncle. As you see in your fish, it goes upward at an angle to the base of the dorsal fin.

Then I thought it looked like Tahuantinsuyoa macantzatza, but something about the facial patterning and shape was still off. So I was scratching my head trying to figure out which fish were similar to Tahuantinsuyoa, and it dawned on me... it looks like something from Bujurquina.

Several of the Bujurquina species have a black horizontal bar that angles up toward the dorsal fin, like your fish pictured above, and several of them also have the blue spotting on the face and gills versus more striated/lined patterns of the other acaras. That's my guess and I'm sticking to it for now. ;) I'm going to send Jeff Rapps a link to this because he's worked with Bujurquina and maybe he can confirm or deny it.
 
I got a reply from Jeff:

Hi Ryan
Buj. mariae or zamorensis.
Origin is always key.
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It's interesting that it was available as a single fish. Did they have others? Maybe it came in as a contaminant on another shipment? Maybe ask the LFS if they imported it, and from where...
 
And I think a customer brought it in as a trade because there were two aequidens metae and a guntheri cichlid. They never carry A. Metae nor guntheris
 
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