Looking for ID on this Colombian-Venezuelean border cichlid

[teddo10]

Is it L. curviceps female?

Ed

 

[scott]

your pic isn't working!

 

[depthc]

It works if you use it as a link

http://image.pbase.com/u14/edvet/upload/38691436.00005328.jpg

or maybe not ... right click the red x and go to properties, then copy and paste the url in your browser, worked for me.

Sorry cant help out with identification.

 

[scott]

that worked! thanks andrew. i'm pretty illiterate when it comes to all things computer related. it took me a couple minutes to figure out what a browser is.

sorry ed i can't help with an id either. it's a great looking fish though!

 

[kribs]

cant look at the pic. Link wont work.

 

[teddo10]

Let me try a link: http://www.pbase.com/edvet/image/38691436

Thanks, Ed

 

[tjudy]

Tough to tell the color.. but Leatacara for sure.

 

[kribs]

Its a Leatacara curviceps. the color will get more darker.

 

[Mike Wise]

The only Laetacara species from Colombia/Venezuela is A. sp. Orange-fins/Orangeflossen, which is what it looks like. Unlike A. curviceps, this species will grow to 4"/10 cm or more. Additionally it requires very soft & acid water to reproduce.

 

[teddo10]

Thanks Mike.
Indeed it has orange coloured fins. Is it a female? I think so.
I got it through an fish importer of whom I buy the added species which find their way in a batch of say a thousand cardinals.
It came along with Nannostomus marginata, Copella arnoldi and two species of unknown Tetra's.

Now I need to find a male.
Ed

 

[Randall]

Laetacara sp. "Orangeflossen"

Hello Teddo,

The Laetacara sure looks like L. "Orangeflossen" to me. Should you ever come accross this form in quantity, please let me know. I've wanted this fish for as long as I've been in the hobby.

Thanks and good luck!

Randall Kohn

 

[Mike Wise]

The fish in the photo is either a mature female or young male. Hard to say without seeing the fish, size, behavior, etc.