What is this cichlid?

[freshwaterfishfan]

I found the below pic on the internet but I think the label is wrong. Is this Tilapia buetterfukori (excuse the spelling).

http://photo.zootrotters.nl/albums/BatchUpload/Dierentuinen/Antwerpen/BlauweAcara.jpg

 

[aquaticclarity]

Steve,

The link you posted is a bust.

Jeff

 

[freshwaterfishfan]

Jeff,

Its working for me...
Steve

 

[aquaticclarity]

hmmmm....if I click the link I get a page that tells me remote linking is not allowed, if I cut and past the url I get a page full of bird pics???

Jeff

 

[freshwaterfishfan]

Jeff,

That is weird. Here is the link again:
http://photo.zootrotters.nl/albums/BatchUpload/Dierentuinen/Antwerpen/BlauweAcara.jpg

 

[aquaticclarity]

Same problem/result. So don't worry about me! Let's just hope everyone else doesn't have this problem.

Jeff

 

[Mike Wise]

The link only works if you copy the link to your browser and enter from there. The fish looks like T. buttekopferi that I've seen, but this genus certainly isn't in my sphere of experience. I easily could be wrong.

 

[aquaticclarity]

Mike,

I tried that and I still get an error page 404 not avaliable and then I'm redirected to a page with a ton of animal thumbnails. Oh well!

(and to avoid confusing anyone the spelling is Tilapia buttikoferi)

Jeff

 

[aquaticclarity]

But I did a search on the site and found this: http://photo.zootrotters.nl/displayimage.php?album=search&cat=0&pos=0Is that the fish picture in question? If so that is a Tilapia buttikoferi.

Jeff

 

[aquaticclarity]

But it gets worse:
do a search on that site for tilapia-you get a picture labeled as Hemichromis bimaculatus...not like any Hemichromis I've ever seen!!! They might have at least gotten the continent right this time, but I don't have a clue as to what the fish is though. Anyone have a good guess?

(I tried incluiding a link to the page but everytime I insert the link it changes the link in my other post with a link. I can only get it to post a link to one picture or the other. Trying to post both links always changes one of the links so that both links pull up the same page. Weird!)

Jeff

 

[freshwaterfishfan]

Sorry for to cause all the problems. That is certainly weird the way the link malfunctions. I thought it was a Tilapia. Moral of the story: Anyone can post anything on the internet (and then make the link do weird things).
Steve

 

[aquaticclarity]

Invest in books, the links don't change themeselves in books :biggrin:

Unfortunatley the internet is quickly becoming the only way many fish keepers get their info and I.D.'s And as Steve pointed out the on-line I.D.'s are often incorrect to plain out wrong!

And be thankfull for people like Mike Wise who take the time to I.D. fish based on fact and research and not just a gut guess.

Thanks for the laugh of the day Steve!

Jeff