My little P. Bleekeri

[Cichlaholics Anonymous]

Well....not at the moment. I'm growing this guy out in a 100 gallon stock tank. Then he's either going into my 100 or 120 gallon aquarium. In other words, it will be at least a month or two before I can get a good side shot.

either way, nice fish....doesn't really affect much whether its polleni or bleekeri (in terms of value i suppose)

 

[Vicious_Fish]

Thanks. And to be honest I like the small spot look that the polleni's have.

 

[darth pike]

So do you guys still think this is a Bleekeri? I bought it at "That Fish Place" under that name but the more pictures I see the more I think this is a Polleni. Any thoughts?

Deffinately a Polleni, though I couldn't tell you if itwas small spot or large spot from the angel. Bleekeri doesn't exist anymore, synomonized with polleni recently.

 

[Cichlaholics Anonymous]

Deffinately a Polleni, though I couldn't tell you if itwas small spot or large spot from the angel. Bleekeri doesn't exist anymore, synomonized with polleni recently.

I know this is a bit off-topic, but how do you differentiate do you use something like "sp. small spots" or by location?

 

[Vicious_Fish]

Deffinately a Polleni, though I couldn't tell you if itwas small spot or large spot from the angel. Bleekeri doesn't exist anymore, synomonized with polleni recently.

See that's what I thought too but I still here people refer to them as "Bleekeri" sometimes.

 

[darth pike]

I know this is a bit off-topic, but how do you differentiate do you use something like "sp. small spots" or by location?

No sp, as that is reserved for undescribed species. I usually just see 'polleni small spot' or 'polleni lg spot'.

See that's what I thought too but I still here people refer to them as "Bleekeri" sometimes.

The hobby is slow to adopt scientific changes. Heck, I know people that still use Cichlasoma for centrals and most south americans despite it's restriction to port cichlids 25 years ago. Or people still calling jurupari geophagus despite having their own genus created 20 years ago.

 

[Vicious_Fish]

Here's some updated pics of my Polleni who is now in a 100 gallon aquarium. I'd say he's between 4-5 inches long. Pretty personable too I might add.

 

[HPIZZLE]

looks alot darker in the tank...
i liked how light he looked.

 

[Vicious_Fish]

looks alot darker in the tank...
i liked how light he looked.

He looks lighter in the older pics because of the flash. But he was a bit lighter in color when I first bought him. He's definitely darkening up nicely.

 

[insularway]

Hey nice looking Red Cheek muds! I have red cheeks, white throats, yellow cheeks, & Kinosternon integrum.

Jay