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Guess What Cichlid This Is

vinman

Members
Hello fellow fish-heads, caught this on another forum. Thought it may be good to run here. We have never had a guessing game , so I thought I would start one.
Just a few rules:
1. Has to be a Cichlid!
2. Scientific name required (unless it is such a common aquarium strain that the common name is well known to just about everybody)
3. Should be an actual species, not a hybrid (or at least fit the type of a common aquarium strain)
4.No hints. (Unless there have been many, many wrong guesses or no one is getting it after many weeks.)
5. If you guess right, you are suposed to post a new picture for others to guess at. You have 48 hours.....if you do not post a picture then anyone else is free to put up a new picture in order to keep the game going.

You can use pictures of your own fish, pictures from the internet, or pictures scanned form books.
I think a guessing game is good practice for identifying cichlids. Good practice for all of us, but especially to those who are fairly new to Cichlids.

I'll start:

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Tony

Alligator Snapping Turtle/Past Pres

Winner winner chicken dinner!

Otopharynx tetraspilus

Tony, any luck breeding that hap? Pretty rare species right there!

Had two males and one female. The 2nd male has since moved on the big fish bowl in the sky. She was holding last week, but when I went to pull her, she spit most of the fry into the tank. I was able to rescue about a dozen or so fry. They are doing well now in a net breeder.

Your turn, Matty.
 

dogofwar

CCA Members
Looking really comfortable in a bare show tank circa 2007 ;)

Yes - now Tony's turn.

By the way, I'm out of African cichlid pictures!

Matt
 

Tony

Alligator Snapping Turtle/Past Pres
By the way, I'm out of African cichlid pictures!

Well then I apologize in advance as most of my pictures are of Africans. ;)

(BTW, despite this thread being in the old world section, I don't think that it should be all Africans, so post away!)

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