Intermedia, we'll see....

[superleggera123]

I see bars.

at that size baby intermedia have lots of line breakage with clear lines
those so called faded lines and i see 3 very faded lines prove to me they are tems

 

[channarox]

at that size baby intermedia have lots of line breakage with clear lines
those so called faded lines and i see 3 very faded lines prove to me they are tems

I see.
Well, I've never owned them, so I can't say anything for sure.
But we'll see, and hopefully they aren't tems.

 

[superleggera123]

i agree
i would hate for them to be tems too but it points that way right now

 

[jdmjunkiemonkie]

in my previous post i said there were looking like the tems from el salvador i got the places mixed up.

they are starting to look like boosten audi brazilian orinos.
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=268651&highlight=brazilian

can they be?

 

[snookn21]

It is possible they are intermedia. We had 150 intermedia come in from peru this year. All 150 came in DOA, and mislabeled. Ours came in at 2" and showed all their bars. Thats the only thing confusing me with these.

 

[hennry]

There are no intermedia from peru sorry to burst your bubble.

 

[jcardona1]

There are no intermedia from peru sorry to burst your bubble.

true, intermedia come from the northeast region of south america, all throughout the orinoco. Not from Peru as far as i know:

Cichla intermedia are nearly endemic to the Orinoco basin; that is, they are only found in the Negro (Amazonas) basin in the Casiquiare river and its tributaries. I have personally seen fishes of this species from the Caura, Capanaparo, Cinaruco, Parguaza, Atapabo, Ventuari, Iguapo, Ocamo, Pamoni, Orinoco mainstem above Mavaca, Casiquiare mainstem, and Siapa rivers. They are likely also in the Aro, Cuchivero, and other clearwater Orinoco tributaries of the Guayana shield, and moderate blackwater tributaries of the Orinoco in Colombia such as the Inirida.

 

[hennry]

I even am starting to think that intermedia may span of in certain regions of the orinoco and casiquiare making them so much "harder" to attain.

 

[jimmie1974]

Tems definitely. I would call now, get your 175 credit and order some other p's.

 

[X-Tank]

they are 2.5 " now. showing 3 bars occasionally.
I will call them temensis, final. Sorry...