Cichlid Id Supposed To Be African Blockhead.

[rdp50734]

What do you think this fish is?

and his mate,

 

[Wills]

The fourth picture looks worryingly like a young peacock bass......

Nobody of the goat is pretty good with african fish from the amount of research they have done so far but, personally I really dont think they are blockheads. The mate even looks like a different fish again from the top one and looks more like some kind of dwarf acara.

However I am unsure of both so may be completely wrong...


Wills

 

[Glenbo1981]

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[england]

looks like a blue acara in last picture...

other pics not sure,in each pic i think something different

like red bay snook..

 

[rdp50734]

I know the last one is a different species. I think its an acara of sort due to the big eyes!

 

[england]

yeah,have a look at red bay snook. if it is pbass then lucky you

 

[rdp50734]

I've just looked at the red bay snook and it looks very similar!

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

Nothing looks remotely close to a "Blockhead" or any other Steatocranus cichlid to me.
http/www.lem.net/a...#nigrofasciatus

Here's a little clip of my tank taken last night, when the star of the show was brave enough to go and say "hello" outside her bogwood cave mountain for the first time (knowingly)...

http/yfrog.com/jcpict0016z

I shall carry on looking, but part of me wonders if these could be Tanganyikan shell dwellers? The top three of the yellow cichlid are a little overexposed, which does not help

The bottom pic, even though its not complete, looks familiar with that dark spot in the middle of the body, near the dorsal fin.

Hmm...

 

[rdp50734]

Thanks everyone, however it shall be going back tomorrow as I really did want a blockhead. I thought it doesn't look quite right but maybe its a juvie and will turn out ok! Then I remembered my good friends here with their bags of knowledge, and thought I'd test you! LOL.
Thanks again all.

 

[snowflake311]

Yeah not a blockhead at all that Im 100% sure of.

Here is my little rescue blockhead

good luck finding one too bad you don't live in nor cal I know someone that breeds them.

I don't know what it is the photos don't show it's true colors. The last photo the fish looks like it has a rounded head the other photos it looks like a more pointed head. I would bring it back too.

 

[star4]

No idea on the first one really, although first thought was some sort of geophagus? with the long nose. The last one is definately not a baby blue acara as I have a tank full of those at the moment and the eye stripe is missing.

 

[Glenbo1981]

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[Wills]

Isnt a Blue Acara without an eyestripe a GT?

 

[england]

I do see where your going with jaguar cichlid,specially as the substrates so light it could well be, then again i could quite happily think earth eater from the 2nd picture

can you get any more shots?

 

[jacko32]

how big is the first fish it looks like it could be either a nichols mouthbrooder or an egyptian mouthbrooder