Is this a firemouth???

[superballs5337]

???

 

[jflowers]

Looks like a ram to me.

Jon

 

[superballs5337]

these are rams, and this fish doesnt look like my 6 bolivian rams or like the other ram.

 

[juanveldez]

it could be a thorichthys species I don't think that it is T. Meeki cause the snout looks to roundedbut there are many species of them out there.

 

[guppymonkey]

It could be a young firemouth, the snout isn't so pronounced in young ones. More likely it is a relative of the firemouth, something from thorichthys.

 

[fufanu360]

no its a female firemouth, they dont have the red throughts liek teh males

 

[Dwarfs]

That's a cousin of the FM, I don't know the name, but I'm sure it's a close cousin

The females may lack the red coloration, but neither male or female has yellow ventral or anal fins

Beautiful fish BTW

 

[redgold]

It looks to be Thorichthys as mentioned... possibly T. aureus or one of the "mixteco" varieties.


By the way, female firemouths do have plenty of red coloration. Not to be negative, but the idea of sexing meeki that way is inaccurate. Meeki are often difficult to sex as subadults because they look so similar. After keeping these fish for the better part of 20 years, in my opinion the more noticable gender differences are body shape and structure, i.e the very long fin trailers and bigger head on males compared to females.

 

[superballs5337]

Thanks for all the great replys. Also i have another question. on his left side the clear lens over his eye is bubbled out more then the other lens on his right eye. is this just a defect or is it some sort of sickness? thanks