ID please

[pelo]

ID me please

[pelo]

another

[pelo]

one more

[pelo]

This one died out of ten of them.The live specimens have more pearl colors in their body.They don't eat food from surface or mid level but actively sift the sand/sibstrate.The colony differs in size...from appr. 13-16 cm in length.They were labelled as threadin acara but I'm thinking possible misID.Price was right..$7 CDN each...

[firemouthman198]

im thinking Geophagus Jurapari due to the horizontal stripes. Theres another geo. species that looks like that one only it has vertical stripes. Correct me if im wrong anybody but i do bleieve that that is a geo. Jurapari. body shape is right as well.

[crazyfishlady]

Not even close.
That type of geo can be pretty hard to ID (jurupari is a satanoperca and has speckles) There' a group of geos like abalios, altifrons, and surinamensis that all kind of look the same, and that is what yours looks like.
Altifrons would be my best guess.
http://www.cichlidae.com/gallery.php?genus=Geophagus

[pelo]

Thanks for the link.Mine are near identical in coloring to that of the altifrons in the picture but have the longer pec,dorsal and anal fins along with a lyre tail like the abalios.The pics I posted are of a dead one that was badly tore up from shipping and isn't quite as nice as the live specimens in the tank,I'm going to get a picture of the colony and post it when I get a chance.....hmmm....Any more guesses??

[autoxevo]

Geophagus Proximus possibly?

[firemouthman198]

the only reason i didnt say surinamensis is because it doesnt have the spot on hte side..... maybe just the fish although i think autoxevo's guess seems alittle more accurate. although those in the pictures at ht elink were prob mature. thanks for the correction cfl......


*edit* anohter wooops after taking a second look at the link it seem as though the proximus has the body spot as well and the subject id fish doesnt. lol