My New Cichla

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Hi all,

Will need some advice from fellow Cichla Legends on my new Cichla

1. Its caught from local waters. How long before it will eat dead food ?
2. Any pointers I should take note ?

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Thanks for helping :)
 
Nice catch for sure !!!!! where are you at ??? Cureous as to what it is looks alot like a Occell Orino hybrid????That my friend depends on the fish you may have alot of trouble or none I would recomend a silverside type fish and throw it in the water he may think it's alive LOL!!!Of coarse the pic is very grainy for sure!!
 
Nice Catch, but its hard to convert a store Purchased Bass, i can imagine one from the wild..........Good Luck.
 
Singapore yes? I have seen (not in person of course) mixed breeds from Sing. Mono/Ocell/ Orino seem to be common there. But don't you guys also have tem's in your waterways?
Don't know how reliable the webpage is, But Puerto Rico's Cichla looks like Nigromaculata's.

http://animal-world.com/encyclo/fresh/cichlid/PeacockCichlid.php
Distribution: The Peacock Cichlid, also called the Peacock Bass, Butterfly Peacock Bass, or Eye Spot Cichlid, was described by Block and Scneider in 1801. They are found in South America in almost all the large waterways of Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia; from the Marowijne drainage, Suriname and French Guiana all the way to the Essequibo drainage in Guyana. They live in large bodies of water where they feed on small fish, especially threadfin shad, mosquito fish, tilapia and bluegill.
These fish are also raised in ponds as a food fish. They have been introduced (non-native) into waters of Florida and Hawaii in the United States, Guam, the Virgin Islands, Malaysia, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Puerto Rico, and Singapore. Their legal introduction as a gaming fish into modified canals and lakes in southern Florida has been quite beneficial, increasing the numbers of the Largemouth Bass and Redear Sunfish for gaming. However their introduction into Lake Gutan in Panama produced undesirable results, drastically changing the composition of fish populations in that canal.
 
not sure but nice lookin

Nice peacock bass man!

Nice Cichla!!

Sweet looking fish either way!

Thanks :)

Nice catch for sure !!!!! where are you at ??? Cureous as to what it is looks alot like a Occell Orino hybrid????That my friend depends on the fish you may have alot of trouble or none I would recomend a silverside type fish and throw it in the water he may think it's alive LOL!!!Of coarse the pic is very grainy for sure!!

i was thinking ocell orino hybrid too. where did you catch it??

Yeah I reckon it might be an Orino x Occellaris too :D but this is the nicest I've ever saw it. Btw I paid only like $10 for this 8" :D

Well I didnt catch it but the LFS have their own people catching these cichlas from our local reservoirs which are great breeding grounds for them.

Nice Catch, but its hard to convert a store Purchased Bass, i can imagine one from the wild..........Good Luck.

Yeah I know that's the challenge :( but for $10, i guess I will have to take it as a gamble :)
 
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