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albert_dao
02-24-2005, 04:19 PM
http://www.cichlids.ca/images/gallery/Salt/Fish/GoldPolymnus.jpg

Here's my a shot (w/ flash, silly things won't hold still) of my latest acquisitions.

I suspect that they are some sort of A. polymnus, but I wouldn't stake a wager on it. Anyone else have a clue?

Delphinus
02-24-2005, 04:41 PM
Polymnus would be my guess ... just curious, how come the uncertainty?

albert_dao
02-24-2005, 05:10 PM
I've never seen saddlebacks with the yellow bellies on them before. Anyway, I was doing a lot of browsing on RC and found that they are indeed a regional variant of A. polymnus. Yellow and black was the name I found attached to them.

Ryan
02-24-2005, 06:00 PM
Definatly Saddleback. Looks at the middle bar see how it curves backward at the top. THis is a main indicator that they are infact saddles. I have never seen them with the yellow either.

BCOrchidGuy
02-24-2005, 06:06 PM
My local Fish store gets in some black perc (so called) I looked at a number of books and found a pic that almost is perfect but they are a variant of a saddleback. It's like African Cichlids, fish that come from different areas of the same lake can look very different even though they are the same species.

Doug