balton777;3510838; said:
Hey Bro,
I didn't take it that way. It's all good.
I was just trying to say that we should all be respectful of one another's experience and be careful not to come across acusatory. 4wheelin;3510827; said:
You ROCK!
The nicest texas cichlid I've seen
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Hey Bro,
I didn't take it that way. It's all good.
I was just trying to say that we should all be respectful of one another's experience and be careful not to come across acusatory. You ROCK!
you're lucky
young_rico;3510683; said:
Personally my jury is out on that fish lol but I just wanted to add my two cents on Houston's local "wild" cichlid populations. I fish Buffalo Bayou constantly and you really can't use our introduced fish here in this part of the state as an example. Besides being introduced from farm raised aquarium fish they, at least I believe actively cross with other introduced fish. Not sure as to exactly what persay. . .
We call them Bayouhorns lol. I've caught some very strange looking TX's (odd patterns, larger than normal nuchal(sp?) humps, etc) there as well as convicts, tilapia, and j.demps. There's a huge rainwater spillway in Elanor Tinsley Park in Downtown that drains into lower Buffalo Bayou. It kind of creates a a warmwater refuge for invasives as well as, apparently, a shelter from the salinty flucuations this lower section of the bayou exp. from time to time. (at least that's my theory)
I've fished the Houston area for about 25yrs now and climate change has brought about some craziness in recent years. There are ponds near Eisenhower Park by Lake Houston that have breeding populations of Oscars in them now and Pacu are allegedly breeding in the upper portions of the bayous. I've encounter Pacu sporadicly in the bayous but I've yet to see proof of breeding other than, i dunno if you'd call this proof, one encounter with lg. group of them feeding on pecans off an on for a few weeks 3yrs ago. We were able to catch them with grapes hehe. Also several years ago when we had a manatee show up in the bayous downtown they showed the final capture live on t.v. after weeks of searching and as they enclosed the net dozens and dozens of adult pacu came leaping over the net smacking people in the face.
There have been several reports of cichla in Brays Bayou from local anglers but I've yet to see any proof.
Sorry I don't mean to derail the thread I just mainly wanted to point out that TX cichlids in Houston are IMO no way "wild".
revkkoolaid;3513656; said:
Thanks for sharing your experience. So maybe what I have is a bayouhorn.
yeah that post cemented in my head that this is not a texas, not a carpintis, but actuall maybe the dempsey, texas crossed I originally thought without reading any posts. It sounds like A LOT of people in texas are just buying fish and immediately throwing them into local streams and such.
OP, why are you trying to end this discussion? Give everyone a chance to weigh in and voice their opinion, you may find out exactly what it is, debate is what this forum is for!
OP, why are you trying to end this discussion? Give everyone a chance to weigh in and voice their opinion, you may find out exactly what it is, debate is what this forum is for!
revkkoolaid;3513656; said:
i wasnt aware that we had convicts, jd's, and oscars. if the cichla are here and start breeding im preety sure they will wipeout alot of fish. i think im goingt o go check out those two parks this weekend before the texans game. thanks for the info.
No cichla that far north, they do not even grow out in northern Florida, just in the extreme southern end of Florida. A cichla would come closer to living down here, near the border.
