help naming a fish species
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LMAO! then your friend caught a festea in florida... not the first time a fish got loose from one of the MANY farms down there 
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Here's a link: Festa's Cichlid (Red Terror) - Cichlasoma festae
Best pic I could find real quick. (the fish base one was not in breeding dress). OK, so take a look at the spot just forward of the Caudal fin and again on the third stripe just down from the lateral line. I didn't bother to count dorsal spines or anything like that... 'cause it's a festae.
The other REALLY sad possibility is it may have been released by an either irresponsible or uneducated aquarist.
Chris
. Here's a link: Festa's Cichlid (Red Terror) - Cichlasoma festae
Best pic I could find real quick. (the fish base one was not in breeding dress). OK, so take a look at the spot just forward of the Caudal fin and again on the third stripe just down from the lateral line. I didn't bother to count dorsal spines or anything like that... 'cause it's a festae
. The other REALLY sad possibility is it may have been released by an either irresponsible or uneducated aquarist.
Chris
I am going to link this on the nanfa forum and see if they have any input, it may go along with an indepth discussion we are having about HR 669.
I am not sure what it is.. I am not sure if it is a red terror but i dont know.
I borrowed the pic and posted on NANFA to get you a positve ID on if it is native, if it is someone there will be able to id it quickly.
I am not sure what it is.. I am not sure if it is a red terror but i dont know.
I borrowed the pic and posted on NANFA to get you a positve ID on if it is native, if it is someone there will be able to id it quickly.
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well after intense googling I would agree it is a red terror, florida is known for having established populations of exotic species living and breeding in local water ways so it would not be suprising if it is a red terror.
HMMM ok 11 views on NANFA and no responses so I will take it as its a red terror..lol
HMMM ok 11 views on NANFA and no responses so I will take it as its a red terror..lol
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Ok here's another fish to name, only I don't have a pic.
It had a long thin body, like a danio or a pencil fish. Mostly colorless body with a single black stripe running horizontaly down its body. The tail was forked with a black edge. In front of the black was a line of yellow. It was probably adult size and slightly longer then the full sized rosy barb so... 4 inches long.
Any ideas or should I come back with a pic? The fish is in someone else's tank.
It had a long thin body, like a danio or a pencil fish. Mostly colorless body with a single black stripe running horizontaly down its body. The tail was forked with a black edge. In front of the black was a line of yellow. It was probably adult size and slightly longer then the full sized rosy barb so... 4 inches long.
Any ideas or should I come back with a pic? The fish is in someone else's tank.
