identification

My husband and I live in Iowa and we went to one of our LFS's and came across an adorable 5 inch "spotted gar" as they labeled it. So we brought him home to be with our other gars :). He is kind of goofy and clumsy probably from all the bubbles in the tank so we are working on that for him. I...

Bought this Rheoheros through my local fish store about a month ago, was labeled as a Theraps lentiginosus but has a pinkish hue to it which some coeruleus develop but not sure. Any suggestions or sexing advice here?

Hello, Could you tell me if these fish are S. Brasiliensis or S. franciscanus

does anyone have a guess as to what this is? Sorry couldn't get a good picture.

VATF or GATF? Thanks in advance

We went into our local LFS and they had this guy just chillin in one of their tanks. When I asked about the tadpole he said sometimes tadpoles get set in with the goldfish accidentally and that they aren't allowed to actually sell it.... so he offered the little guy up to me for free!! I...

I'm guess no one can tell me because I don't know where it was collected but I'm still curious. Thanks guys

Hello, so I saw a piranha on sale listed as a "ruby red piranha". No one at the store really knew what t was as it was a trade in. One person said they thought it was a sanchezi but they didn't really seem confident. Is it a spilo or sanchezi or something else. I only have one photo and it's...

Please help me id this fish,Is it a Megalodoras or oxydoras? Thanks

Guys can you confirmthis cat's species? He was labeled as vaillanti at the lfs.... Thanks

Hello all! I need help identifying this plant. I had 2 of them (the large one on the last image is one of them) about maybe 4-5 months ago. They've out lived my bacopas, which I think is interesting as bacopas are pretty low maintenance as far as I've read. -Long thin, and straight blades of...

Hi, my name is Meagan and im from Denton, Tx. Ive been patiently waiting to have my new 120 gallon fish ready and that happened about a week ago. So i have a cichlid tank and i have had one before but this time my fiance decided he wanted more color and picked up some from walmart... i dont...

I bought this piranha from the local fish shop today. He couldn't give me a scientific name. He just said it was a "True Black Rhom". He said he picked it up from his wholesaler a couple months ago that had gotten it in a large shipment from Brazil. Does anyone know the species? If you...

Hello everyone, I mentioned in an earlier post that the local shop had 2 piranhas, one labeled true red eye black rhom. And the other was just labeled black piranha. I went in today and tried to take some pictures but the quality wasn't great. If someone could please Id them for it it would be...

I was at the local shop today and they had this labeled as "Red pike cichlid". It was about 10-12 inches and they were asking $115.

I currently have a wolf fish that was sold to me as a black and I believe it is a mala. I have 75, 55,29g tanks at the moment but I'm open to going as large as 180. In the 55 g I currently have an odoe pike and 2 hujeta gars all about 5 inches. My plan was to grown them up and add them to my...

I am looking at buying a piranha from a friend that he had ordered off of aquascape. He said it's a sanchezi but he also said red spilo. They are different fish correct? I would like to know which fish it is and the different requirements they need. Thanks

Hello, Recently I bought 3 "Blue Acaras" from my LFS for 7.50$ each, but after looking online and researching some more information about them im beginning to think I got 3 green terrors instead. I know i cannot house 3 green terrors, especially in my smaller sized tank and origionally i...

Hey, this fish was sold to me under red head tapjos but I'm having my doubts as pictures of these fish online look very different. It's defiantly a type of geophagus but I don't think he/she is a redhead. Any help is appreciated