Natural habitats of cichlids

[CiclidMex]

Villahermosa, Tabasco.

 

[newworld]

Great and very easy to collect there, I see some hybrids?

 

[CiclidMex]

Río Bascan, Chiapas.

 

[Finksburg]

damn.. i come on here fairly often these last few months.. not sure how i missed this thread as i was building out my tank

 

[MatteoTheEnder22]

Who wants to see some invasive cichlids in florida waters ill post some photos soon.

 

[Matthew1626]

Is that gravel naturally occurring?

I thought all Central American lakes and rivers had pool filter sand bottoms ?

 

[Gourami Swami]

great video I found on youtube

 

[ghekox233]

great video I found on youtube

Ah I always wondered how convicts look like in the wild. They seem they have more of the greyish body color instead of black.

 

[Gourami Swami]

Ah I always wondered how convicts look like in the wild. They seem they have more of the greyish body color instead of black.

The wild convicts I have seen do usually tend to have more of a greyish, even browish, tint to them. This may be due to different locales having slight variations. Also are quite a few species that can fall under the common name "convicts" - A. nigrofascaiata, siquia, kanna for example I have seen called convict, though they are technically separate species and all look a little bit different.

 

[duanes]

Think these weren't posted earlier in the thread
1st Rocio and Mayaheros in a small ssatillite Cenot

Above a Cenote where Rocio dominate