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A few Caquetaia sp "green umbie". In my opinion this will be described as a seperate species eventually. Having kept both umbriferus and sp "green" they seem very different to me in both color and behavior.

Large male
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Female with eggs
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Thanks for the pics Bob, I love both the myersis and green umbees, I'd love to have either species or both if I had room, the deaded MTS comes to mind. Your pics got me fired up enough to finally post a video of the 4 spectabilis cichlids I donated to the Newport Aquarium last year. The video was shot about October 30th 2008.http://www.vimeo.com/3075382

I still have my breeding pair. They are rather quite now, I'm trying to whip them back into breeding shape so I can take some fry to the ACA convention.
 
lostnight-thanks for sharing the video.looking forward to future reports.how many fry do you have now and how big are they now?will you be selling any of these?
 
I traded mine to the lfs, thought that was all I had. Then doing some water changes in the 90 I found one stragler that somehow avoided predation, but he's still tiny, probably too scared to come out and eat. I moved him into his own 20 long, hoping to grow him big enough to put with other fish before my specs decide to breed again. I plan to use this 20 for the growout tank again. I hope to snap a pic of the little fella in the next couple of days, but it won't be easy, he's a bit shy. He probably thinks there is still a Xingu Pike Cichlid lurking around. Maybe a small school of neon tetras will make him feel more secure, and provide a nice snack when he get's some size, hmm.

I hope they breed again soon, and I will consider selling some if they do. I want to take some to the ACA convention at the end of this July, so I'm hitting them with a lot more frequent water changes and a more intense diet to try to get them back in the breeding mood. I was slacking for a few months when I got bought a new motorcycle. The breeding pair I have is a closely bonded couple, they always hang out in the same cave together.
 
After work today I stooped and bought 3 neon tetras to put with the baby spectabilis. They are fairly close in size. He seems to feel more secure already, he was swimming around a lot more tonight. I think he likes his new friends, which he'll likely eat some day. I snapped some pictures, but it was too tough to get a good one tonight. Here are two pictures anyway.

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Thanks for all the info and pics, this is a great thread. I just picked up my first ever Caquetaia today from Ken Davis, it's a spectabilis. Here's a couple pics.

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I have 3 7-8+" Myersi. Cool fish. Big male is almost solid gold at 8+". Hardly any barring. The other male is almost that size but has the barring shown in the other pics. Maybe a dominance thing.
 
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