Can someone ID this American Cichlid for me?

lucy42083 said:
If you aren't planning on upgrading anytime soon, you will either have to change your plans or return some fish to the LFS I'm afraid. Flowerhorns can grow to over a foot and have quite a thick girth, and the same for your 4 Midas. :eek: The Green Terrors will grow to 8 inches, and I agree the last pic looks like a JD which will also get to 8 inches or so. All of these fish, espeically Midas and Flowerhorn, will get very aggressive and territorial as they mature.
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HOLY ! How the heck do LFS (PetSmart in particular) get away with down-playing size and aggression that way? At those specs, well, I can't even calculate off the top of my head...but I think I'll need TWO much larger tanks to house everyone....HOLY! (I apologise for being crass...but...it really pisses me off! I BOUGHT these fish believing they would max out as advertised...a LOT SMALLER THAN THAT!)

Okay, so, I giving those "specs" how big? How SOON? UGHHH!
 
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UGHH...I'm quite attached to this fella now! This is TERRIBLE! I honestly don't know that I could maintain ANY fish that size. Even the 150 is a Vat--so he wouldn't have the length. Besides, I LIKE having that tank set up for the Africans.

On a side note: I apologise to all for the original nature of my prior post. I hope I did not offend anyone. And, I apologise to anyone that I might have. Not to excuse the profanity, but I was exceptionally upset to learn about these size discrepancies! I'm sorry. :(
 
Know what you are buying before you shop at petsmart. They have no clue about the fish they sell.
They sell "Angel botia" as aggessive listed, and "dinosaur bichirs" in the community tanks as non-aggressive.
And I too fell for a green terror pair trusting their description to top out at 6 inches. Now the male is almost a foot in length and the female is 6 inches. I'm glad I was able to make room for them.

I still say avoid the chains and support your local mom and pops.
 
terror spawnin said:
Know what you are buying before you shop at petsmart. They have no clue about the fish they sell.
They sell "Angel botia" as aggessive listed, and "dinosaur bichirs" in the community tanks as non-aggressive.
And I too fell for a green terror pair trusting their description to top out at 6 inches. Now the male is almost a foot in length and the female is 6 inches. I'm glad I was able to make room for them.

I still say avoid the chains and support your local mom and pops.
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Oh goodness! I forgot about the bichir (dinosaur eel I think they advertised here)...that I caught with a 2" juvi "Kenyi" in his mouth--head first--one morning. He literally killed HIMSELF w/his "prize" (though I was much more upsest about the "Kenyi" in which I was fairly certain was a misplaced juvi Frontonsa :( ) Bichir was another ex-deployed aquisition, and after the original incident, I ended up with another of the horrid things a year later upon another deployment...It was hard to say "no" when kids were mesmorised by the "dinosaur" aspect of the name! Bichir Two (kind of a little guy compared to the first) fell victim to--now much larger--pictus cats who were apparently not very content with the q 2 day feeding schedule... I didn't catch the perp in the act, but his gargantuan belly, exceptionally non-typical lethargy upon feeding, and the absence of our particularly social bichir hence forward, sort of gave him away...

As for local "mom and pops" I WISH! We had one for a while, but PetSmart put them out of business. They had a beautiful selection of fresh and salt too... I have a PetSmart and a Walmart...that's it for my options, as far as I know. But HEY, if anyone here knows of a small, non-chain, or mom and pop store in the Warner Robins/Macon, Georgia area LET ME KNOW! I'd be more than happy to check them out, and throw a little business their way.

I'm looking for better filtration for the 150, and maybe some nicer deco...and well...apparently, another sizeable set-up for the issues previously addressed here!
 
MRomalin, I think you should just ditched the Midas, FH, convicts and GT to minimize your problems. I assume by "red-tailed barbs", you meant tinfoil barbs, correct? Is that 150, gallons or liters? If gallons, you can keep the barbs along with the red-tailed black shark. Let me know what you plan next. I can help you in any way.:)
 
I'm not sure about the tinfoil vs. red-tailed! I attached a photo (albeit not such wonderful quality). They were labelled as "Red-Tailed Barbs" when I purchased them. As I mentioned, they are about 10" or so... They are in a 55 gal tank with all those you said I should ditch. :(

I also have 150 gal w/all Malawi Africans...which is that tank I feel needs a better filtration system. It, the 150g, originally had a sump w/dual powerheads, plus a dual bio-wheels power-filter, but the sump clogged (was using sand) and burnt out, so I ditched the whole mechanism for two of the bio-wheels (Marineland Penguin 350's)...the 55gal has one of the same, plus an ancient active carbon side-hang model I stuck on there just for the time being because the flourite substrate is so silty...a slight current can stir up a cloud throughout the tank for hours. (It said no rinsing necessary...lesson learned!)

I truly have NO problem setting up an additional tank...say another 55g or maybe a touch larger...I just wonder if even THAT would be enough at this point! Space is a bit limited, well, not so much limited in the sense of having room at all, but in the sense of placing additional tanks somewhere that they can be appreciated!

I guess I need to figure something out soon though.... * sigh * I'm rather bummed out about it all... And to think, had my Ahlis not fallen ill...and had the ID of this Flowerhorn fella not been nagging on me, I'd be in rather dire straits by the time I went searching for help...

I suppose in that sense, I should be happy I've managed to learn so much so quickly... (yeah, not helping really...still pretty bummed out :( )

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