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Any idea what this guy might be?
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I was in a petco and in their planted tank they had a few fish someone turned in. There was a nice spangled JD, as well as a Jewel Cichlid and this guy. They were all pretty beat up, so I asked the guy working back there what was up with them? He told me the story about how they were turned in and then told me if I wanted them, I could have them for free. I figured, why not, I could throw them in my quarantine tank and let them heal up a bit.

After a couple of weeks, the JD and the Jewel were doing pretty well so I rehomed those to a friend. However, this guy was pretty beat up, so I moved him to my 120g sa community tank/grow out tank.

He's starting to heal up now as his fins are almost back to normal (the picture above was taken when I first got him). With the healing process though, he seems to have gotten more and more aggressive. He's beating on my blue acara's pretty hard. So I'm thinking its time he moves on as well.
 
My guess would be a Convict X Cryptoheros sajica cross. Has some of the right color as well as the T-bar of a C. sajica, but the barring pattern seems a little odd for a C. sajica ------ most notably the thick bar before the gill area and some of the other stripes look more like a convict. Some C. sajica are blue eyed so that fits with C. sajica, as well. But its a guess, as I'm really not too sure exactly what your fish is.
 
Well the T-bar is very apperrant and obvious on this fish ---- easily visible right there on the middle of the fish:ROFL: Show me any spilirum or cutteri with a T- bar on it ; or any other CA cichlid for that matter that has a T-bar like a T-bar cichlid ( sajica). Besides that , this fish is not striped like a spilirum or cutteri.
 
definitely looks like a sajica of some sort. Maybe his coloring just isnt as good because of all the stress stick him alone im sure hell darken up and it will be easier to tell.
 
Well, maybe I'm making too much out of what looks like a T-bar ----different mood of the fish could bring out that kind of marking. The more I look at the fish, the more I see now:ROFL:, that the fish does look like a cutteri.
 
I think I've seen the sajica before in my searches. I was hoping he might turn into that, but the more I look at him now, he definitely looks like the cutteri.

I think the Tbar was from stress. Like I said, he was really beat up when I got them. He was in with a 6-7" JD which I bet beat him up a bit. He's healed quite well, I need to get an updated photo.
 
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