Not Cichla...................Centrarchidae..........small mouth bass aka brown or bronze bass. Large mouth bass are in the same family however they are way darker and green................gott'm all over PA. Good sport fishin' specie also great with eggs on the grill for breakfast.
Please identify cichlid (cichla?)
- Thread starter Padiwan cichlidiot
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They don't do very well in Hawaii's waters. They've been stocked a lot of places, but are just barely surviving in the cooler streams on Oahu. I hear there is decent small mouth bass fishing on Kauai, in the higher elevation streams.
it's not a cichlid, the only thing they have in common with a cichlid is that they are in the order of "Perciformes" its still a really nice fish though, are you gonna keep it? i heard though, they have a high intoleranance to bad water quality so theyare used as an environmental indicator, which means it might be difficult to keep, up to the challenge?
I'll try to keep him, I've read that they ignore everything thats not alive and moving, but with a near-by stream, that should not be too much of a problem. I did not see him eat yet, but I put in a bunch of guppies for the night.
