Unidentified Cichlid

[circe]

I bought this fish a few weeks ago, and I don't remember it's name. At first I though it was a gourami, but now I'm not so sure. I've been searching for Cichlid images, and I think it is a younger Mayan Cichlid. I have two in a 20 gallon tank, could someone tell me what fish it is and should I up-size the tank?

http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff257/x_frozenfire_x/TexasAnimalSightings019.jpg

I have more images if this one is too blurry. Thanks.

--Chris

[jameshilljr]

Looks like a Paradise Fish(Macropodus opercularis)

[rich311k]

Sure doesn't look like a cichlid. I would agree with something in the anataboid family.

[circe]

Are the fish you metioned territorial? One of the fish tries to keep the other fish away from the front of the tank.

[Coler]

any chance of the less blurry pics circe ?

[circe]

It is a paradise fish, thanks for your help.

[Riiz]

If its a blue paradise fish, a pair will be ok in a 20 gallon. But males will tend to be a little territorial, which is likely, due that females are very dull and harder to find in the trade.

[circe]

http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff257/x_frozenfire_x/TexasAnimalSightings021.jpg


Here's another picture, so you can confirm it, or disagree.

[BigFishKeeper]

Dwarf Gourami?

[Jayhawk]

There is not question whatsoever...even from the first pic...that's a paradise fish. If you have 2 males, they can be rather nasty with each other, especially when they hit adulthood.

Personality-wise, they're more like cichlids than what most think of as gouramis.

Eric

[SchizotypalVamp]

agreed with above

[Lupin]

Paradise gourami, not a cichlid but anabantid.;)

[toddnbecka]

Unless cichlids have learned to build bubblenests...