id of this fish??

[kate81]

image removed, will resize and re load this evening.
About the firemouths, how can they eat the drawfs when they are only roughly twice the size??
Jus interested as have never heard this before!

 

[tjudy]

Hi Kate,

Welcome to the forum!

I think that the fish is a firemouth cichlid (Thorichthys meeki) from Central America. It would eat most dwarf cichlids.

Could you please remove the current image link, resize the image to about 640 x 480 pixels and reload it? Right now the image is too large for the forum.

Thanks

Ted

 

[aquaticclarity]

The lower fish looks like a firemouth cichlid. The upper fish looks more like a texas or carpintae cichlid or the like. Hard to tell from the photo and a lot of those Central American cichlids look very similar as juvinals.

Jeff

 

[tjudy]

If the firemouth is only about 2-3 inches long, then it is only about 1/4 grown. Once they are 5+ inches I think that dwarf cichlids will have a tough time surviving in with them. I did not see the other fish Jeff saw, but if it is a H. carpintis it will get even larger, and far more aggressive, than the firemouth will.