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#495936 09/05/18 06:59 PM
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It kind of looks like a tilapia, but we have cold winters.

Can anyone positively identify it?














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Al you have a tilapia. If you saved it and put it in 50F water in the refrigerator or cool water & it promptly died - tilapia positively. It will not survive your winters. Someone stocked your pond.

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after some of the posts on the fishing forum, I am thinking it is a mayan cichlid







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after some of the posts on the fishing forum, I am thinking it is a mayan cichlid







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Originally Posted By: Lake Vilbig - Al Kohutek
after some of the posts on the fishing forum, I am thinking it is a mayan cichlid



I was thinking it was some kind of cichlid too. Tilapia is a cichlid and I am thinking red belly.

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Pretty fish whatever it is

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Not positive it�s a Mayan cichlid � see this (pics) � but it is a cichlid � tilapia are cichlids

http://fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?ID=4798&AT=mayan+cichlid
















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Could be a Black Acara - Cichlasoma bimaculatum. They have been found in living in Florida, but I'm not sure about Texas.


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I didn't think Acara got that big. We had a few Blue Acara in our 75 gallon tank and they were the bosses. Just about killed everything smaller and everything bigger had their fins nipped off.


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