Please identify cichlid (cichla?)

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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.
 
Yeah its a smallie alright. It is interesting that they can live in Hawaii's warm water. I wonder who stocked them? They should stock some in florida...
 
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?
 
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