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Brisch
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PostSubject: Help ID this fish   Wed Jul 21, 2010 1:22 am

the grey one with the black stripe, its hard to get a picture of it as it likes to follow me around the tank so I did the best I could. And no the water isnt dirty, there is something on the glass, took me a few days to figure out why no matter how many w/c I did it was still mercy.


it was sold to me as a Red Empress at under an inch, now at about 4 inches I can clearly see it isnt a Red Empress at all. I only want an ID because it is in with my africans right now and I dont know if it should be.
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PostSubject: Re: Help ID this fish   Wed Jul 21, 2010 7:41 am

First glance I would say some type of Acura, Maybe Port Acura.

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PostSubject: Re: Help ID this fish   Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:46 am

not an acara, reminds me sorta of a black belt shape wise pattern is different, forget name of species Vieja something
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PostSubject: Re: Help ID this fish   Fri Jul 23, 2010 6:53 am

Looking at it again it does look a lot like Vieja maculicauda (Black Belt Cichlid).

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PostSubject: Re: Help ID this fish   Fri Jul 23, 2010 11:24 am

ill try and get a better picture of her
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PostSubject: Re: Help ID this fish   Fri Jul 23, 2010 11:16 pm

Is that a red spot on the operculum? And is the tail red? She looks to be 'bout 4" long (6-8 cm)? Thinkin' Vieja or a former Vieja species, possibly an immature Paratheraps synspilum (Vieja synspila), a.k.a. redhead cichlid.

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PostSubject: Re: Help ID this fish   Sat Jul 24, 2010 12:49 am



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PostSubject: Re: Help ID this fish   Sat Aug 07, 2010 12:07 pm

Could be a redhead or a blackbelt either way it's most def a vieja species and not what it was sold to u as.

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PostSubject: Re: Help ID this fish   Sun Sep 12, 2010 3:03 pm

Looks to be a variant of this fish ( Vieja synspila "Quetzal Cichlid")

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PostSubject: Re: Help ID this fish   Mon Sep 20, 2010 11:59 pm

She is most definitely a red head cichlid
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