Please help identify

Gourami Swami · Aug 2, 2024

It could be an amphilophis, but something about the mouth doesn't look quite right to me. Looks like a tilapia of some kind. Could be a hybrid, or it could be a barred amphilophus. Sorry I don't have a better answer, but it's certainly not a Frontsa.

duanes · Aug 2, 2024

troublesum · Aug 2, 2024

Its not a Front, for sure without the small back story and a quick glance i would say like the others its in the Amp family barred Midas or Hogga. but the OP said it came from a African shipment which makes me think some sort of Tilapia but as of then out of my pay grade

duanes · Aug 2, 2024

To add to the confusion.....and lack of uniformity
Below feral M uropthamus in Fla.

https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/i97/dstuer/Florida%202014/Uros/.highres/IMG_2127_zps5d1da86f.jpg?width=320&height=320&fit=bounds

Below a different Cenote in Mexico, these ae quite different from the uros I posted above

Below Amphiilophus amarillo

https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/i97/dstuer/amphilophus/.highres/MaySecond020.jpg?width=320&height=320&fit=bounds

LAQGUY · Aug 2, 2024

troublesum said:
Its not a Front, for sure without the small back story and a quick glance i would say like the others its in the Amp family barred Midas or Hogga. but the OP said it came from a African shipment which makes me think some sort of Tilapia but as of then out of my pay grade

What also has me at a loss for words is the bold attitude, he is in with my red eared slider and is quite stoic along side the turtle. He behaves like a central or Sothern American cichlid for sure.

LAQGUY · Aug 2, 2024

Thank you all for your comments I do hope to see more.

LAQGUY · Aug 12, 2024

So here’s an update. He is now named Deamos. And has put on some size in this brief time.

Cichlids-r-beasts · Aug 12, 2024

Looks much more like an Amphilophus now

Caperguy99 · Aug 13, 2024

On first glance, looks like it could be Amphilophus Amarillo or Amphilophus hogaboomorum. In the latter case, it seems to match this description:

“Seven dark transverse bands, the first of which curves over the forehead (therefore also called a harlequin cichlid), and the last on the caudal peduncle, just before an extra spot, the caudal peduncle, which is not counted as a transverse band.”