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Brisch
The Pleco Princess
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Female Posts : 185

Age : 34
Location : Vancouver, Canada
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PostSubject: Help ID this fish   Help ID this fish EmptyWed Jul 21, 2010 4:22 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.
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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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Mostlycichlids
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Location : New Mexico USA
Favorite Fish : Jaguar Cichlid

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PostSubject: Re: Help ID this fish   Help ID this fish EmptyWed Jul 21, 2010 10:41 am
First glance I would say some type of Acura, Maybe Port Acura.
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Favorite Fish : Right now, any fish I own.

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PostSubject: Re: Help ID this fish   Help ID this fish EmptyFri Jul 23, 2010 3:46 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   Help ID this fish EmptyFri Jul 23, 2010 9:53 am
Looking at it again it does look a lot like Vieja maculicauda (Black Belt Cichlid).
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Brisch
The Pleco Princess
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Age : 34
Location : Vancouver, Canada
Favorite Fish : Betta Splendens, All Apistogramma

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PostSubject: Re: Help ID this fish   Help ID this fish EmptyFri Jul 23, 2010 2:24 pm
ill try and get a better picture of her
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PostSubject: Re: Help ID this fish   Help ID this fish EmptySat Jul 24, 2010 2:16 am
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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Brisch
The Pleco Princess
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PostSubject: Re: Help ID this fish   Help ID this fish EmptySat Aug 07, 2010 3:07 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   Help ID this fish EmptySun Sep 12, 2010 6:03 pm
Looks to be a variant of this fish ( Vieja synspila "Quetzal Cichlid")

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Brisch
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PostSubject: Re: Help ID this fish   Help ID this fish EmptyTue Sep 21, 2010 2:59 am
She is most definitely a red head cichlid
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