New fish ID and update!!!!
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Looks like an acara chiclid to me but not 100% sure BTW I like your gravel very unique!
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thanks, I acadently made it, my LFS 2 bags of white, red and black, so I decided to try them all...
sometimes I feel like the only person on this site who can ID american cichlids.
it's a chocolate cichlid. Some are darker some are lighter. It looks exactly like small version of the nice greeen one I used to have. they have that stripe until they hit the 5" mark and then they will have only a single spot.
Hypselecara temporalis
Heres mine around 7" male that has darker colouration
heres an older female I had with light colouiration
thats what you have, not an acara and definately not a nicaraguensis, they ALWAYS have an elongated body, especially when young. plus the fins and face are all wrong
it's a chocolate cichlid. Some are darker some are lighter. It looks exactly like small version of the nice greeen one I used to have. they have that stripe until they hit the 5" mark and then they will have only a single spot.
Hypselecara temporalis
Heres mine around 7" male that has darker colouration
heres an older female I had with light colouiration
thats what you have, not an acara and definately not a nicaraguensis, they ALWAYS have an elongated body, especially when young. plus the fins and face are all wrong
maybe, the pearson at the LfS said it wasn't... if it was na choclate they would have labeled it beacause there was a tank with choclates and they would label these if they were...sometimes I feel like the only person on this site who can ID american cichlids.
it's a chocolate cichlid. Some are darker some are lighter. It looks exactly like small version of the nice greeen one I used to have. they have that stripe until they hit the 5" mark and then they will have only a single spot.
Hypselecara temporalis
Heres mine around 7" male that has darker colouration
heres an older female I had with light colouiration
thats what you have, not an acara and definately not a nicaraguensis, they ALWAYS have an elongated body, especially when young. plus the fins and face are all wrong
Dude the amount of fish I have got from the LFS that weren't named on their system is at least in the 20's. especially africans. They all come from farms usually in Singapore where they breed multiple species and some fish get mixed into other tanks and what not. Most SA/CA cichlids look identical when fry anyway. It really isn't out of the question that you have a chocolate cichlid.
Looks like a young really nicely coloured chocolate
Looks like a young really nicely coloured chocolate
