ID please ^_^

[channarox]

This is how am I feeling right now....

Still thinking and searching...

vazzoleri?

 

[X-Tank]

vazzoleri?

Is your head getting big, too??

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Is it a pinima with prominent 1a BAR?

 

[X-Tank]

man i'm hung up on that little guy

nice kelberi.. prob full grown

That photo is interesting in that it shows a fully mature breeding class kelberi that is not very big at all. Maybe 10 inches or so? Unless the guys hand is HUGE or something. That's a really nice fish! I wonder if Scat's will get that hump, too.

I never thought kelberi at this size can be so SEXY...

 

[samurai-h]

Final answer: thyrorus.

I did see a pinima looks very similar to this yesterday. Will have to go look for it.

haha......... I saw this yesterday.. 2nd picture

They are not from Rio Trombetas but Balbina.
It's vazzoleri var

Distribution changes into the species on the boundary of the waterfall of Rio Trombetas. middle to upper part for Thyrorus , lower to middle for Vazzoleri

 

[X-Tank]

They are not from Rio Trombetas but Balbina.
It's vazzoleri var

Distribution changes into the species on the boundary of the waterfall of Rio Trombetas. middle to upper part for Thyrorus , lower to middle for Vazzoleri

Thanks. Wow that knowledge is really out of my reach. Information about jariina, thyrorus, and vassoleri in this pdf is really confusing. I personal think the author was confused himself, too. http://www.scribd.com/doc/3638216/Cichla-spp

Their characteristics are not described very clearly. It seems like the only way as per that pdf to distinguish those 3 species are by scale count...

Will you be able to tell those 3 species apart without knowing their collecting sites?

 

[X-Tank]

They are not from Rio Trombetas but Balbina.
It's vazzoleri var

Distribution changes into the species on the boundary of the waterfall of Rio Trombetas. middle to upper part for Thyrorus , lower to middle for Vazzoleri

Interesting... found that species here. " Rio Balbina."
That's the key.
http://pescarias.twh6.com/peixes1.php

 

[channarox]

Is your head getting big, too??

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Is it a pinima with prominent 1a BAR?

 

[channarox]

Interesting... found that species here. " Rio Balbina."
That's the key.
http://pescarias.twh6.com/peixes1.php

dont we have someone on here who can translate.....

 

[samurai-h]

Interesting... found that species here. " Rio Balbina."
That's the key.
http://pescarias.twh6.com/peixes1.php

Balnina is not river(Rio) but huge Lake located on upper rio Uatuma.
There are many very unique PBass in this big lake.
Only 2 big adult ones had been imported to here from Balbina about 4 years ago.

I must admit you're my padawan

 

[channarox]

I must admit you're my padawan

aww shucks.
ive got lots to learn.