Catching cichlids from my pond

If you take the fish from the pond take some of the water also and put in the tank. The water from the pond already has biological and you do not want to put the fish in water with a big difference in pH
 
They look like some type of bass to me

dont look anything like the "bluegills" I catch up here..

Either way they are not cichlids from what I can see
 
They are in fact bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus: Centrarchidae), a north American native species of small sport fish. Sometimes reffered to as Sun Fish. Can be kept in the aquarium, I have done it before with huge success. Best if caught as smaller juveniles then raised in the tank to grow accustomed to pellets, worms, live crickets, rosie red feeders, etc.... They are excellent fish to keep in the aquarium, and are closely related to the cichlid species.

Water temp - 70-75

PH - 7.0-7.5
 
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When I stayed the summer with my uncle in West Palm Beach we used to catch all kinds of oscars, tilapia, gar, bluegill, peacock bass, mollies, plecos in the drainage ditches. These are the traps baited with dry dog food.

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/t...-box.jsp.form23&Go.x=1&_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1

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Looks like a bluegill to me. Try to catch one and take a picture of it out of water, it would be easier to ID
 
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