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[Spring]

I posted this in the chit chat forum but it was suggested there that I post here instead. This fish belongs to a friend of mine but he has been unable to identify it. We were hoping someone here might be able to help.

some people have had problems viewing the pic so heres the link as well http/www.pbase.com/image/51137747
Thanks
Spring

 

[IMCL85]

Looks like a flowerhorn. Go post over to www.flowerhornusa.com to id if it real but sure looks like a female to me.

 

[Synirr]

I agree, looks like a flowerhorn

 

[AnthonyRobinson666]

looks more like a west african cichlid, had a quick look but haven't found any matches yet...



...alass i believe the fish to be Tilapia mariae...

thanks your welcome took me roughly a hour to find out which one
please comfirm might be worth posting the pic in african cichlid room...


ARobinson

 

[Fish_Mike]

looks more like a west african cichlid, had a quick look but haven't found any matches yet...



...alass i believe the fish to be Tilapia mariae...

thanks your welcome took me roughly a hour to find out which one
please comfirm might be worth posting the pic in african cichlid room...


ARobinson

I agree, closest to a Tilapia Mariae

Don't think it looks like a flowerhorn at all...

 

[Spring]

Thanks for the suggestions I'll check them all out and see what I can find out. Sorry I hadn't replied sooner I've been a bit flat out the past couple of days.

 

[Synirr]

Hmm... after Googling pics, it does look more like Tilapia mariae than a flowerhorn. Young flowerhorns don't have the typical nuchal hump and do have similar colouring to the fish in the picture, but the face is a little off for it to be flowerhorn I suppose.

 

[leroy]

Hmm... after Googling pics, it does look more like Tilapia mariae than a flowerhorn. Young flowerhorns don't have the typical nuchal hump and do have similar colouring to the fish in the picture, but the face is a little off for it to be flowerhorn I suppose.

i would have to agree with Synirr its tilapia mariae!

 

[Lynden]

At first glance, i had little idea, maybe it was a flowerhorn, maybe it was a tilapia. But on closer inspeection it is indeed a Tilapia, which i know little about. They are large, aggresive, and one tilapia is sea living. There is a species of tilapia that takes the title of the most "alkaline" fish, since it lives in water with a pH of 10.5 or more. Just some fun tilapia facts. One fact that is not so fun is that they are the most eaten cichlid. I went to a "Denny's" resturant one time, and it said on the billboard outside that their special was "grilled tilapia" that day.


-Lynden

 

[Dany]

possibly an adult synspillum (RED HEAD CICHLID.) how big is it