ID Please

[garyo]

HI everyone im new to the site.

i have recently purchase him from my lfs and was told that he is a black belt.

from pictures i have seen on the internet im not convinced.

can anyone id please?

 

[CLDarnell]

Hello and welcome to MFK!

I am only guessing, but it looks like the result of a Flowerhorn that has been bred back to a Black Belt.

 

[clgkag]

Vieja of some sort

 

[Addikted2Cichlids]

whatever it is, it's one beautiful fish..

 

[ilovecacichlids]

thats a beautiful fish

 

[peathenster]

old bifa?

 

[cichlid freaks]

It's not a blackbelt nor a flowerhorn? But in the vieja family.

 

[Reiner]

old bifa?

I agree

Vieja bifasciatus

 

[garyo]

Thanks guys, i have a female too. supposedly they are a breeding pair!!

 

[Jason_S]

I'd say either fenestratus or guttulatus...or very possibly a hybrid but definitely not a black belt