ID please - What the heck is this?

[Deb2]

im thinkin its alot more like a firemouth/dempsey hybrid for sure

Unlikely that the two would hybridize. Pretty likely that two thorichthys would.

 

[bass28]

thats a crossbreed fish! looks liek a firemouth and some kind of GEO.

 

[Deb2]

definately not a geo, extremely unlikely that a CA and SA would cross. Also looks nothing like any geo I have seen.

 

[Star_Rider]

with fish in captivity it is difficult to make any conclusion on what would or would not cross breed.

 

[Deb2]

with fish in captivity it is difficult to make any conclusion on what would or would not cross breed.

True enough, still doesn't look like a geo, I have kept many.

 

[syddakyd]

hmm. either thats the nicest looking firemouth i ever seen or it is a hybrid looking to be mixed with blue acara maybe even green terror who knows

 

[Star_Rider]

True enough, still doesn't look like a geo, I have kept many.

maybe so but a hybrid Geo may not look like a typical Geo.



just keeping options open....

 

[Slappy*McFish]

Well, hopefully he knows what it is by now, but I'm fairly confident that it's just a Thorichthys Ellioti in between juvenile and adult coloration.

 

[dent20]

Thorichthys ellioti, closely related to T. meeki (firemouth). Could be a hybrid of the two, but I don't think so. It is definately Thorichthys.

Has anyone posted this link yet? Awesome looking fish. Funny this thread should come up because I just stumbled upon it last night. I'm trying to decide what I might add to my 125 when I get it up and running.

http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=63

 

[Deb2]

lol...I thought I posted that exact link. I am pretty sure it is an ellioti, possibly cross with meeki, but it looks like an ellioti.

A hybrid geo would have some geo charisterics and I am not seeing any.