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Posted By: Lake Vilbig - Al Kohutek Need a fish ID - 09/05/18 11:59 PM
It kind of looks like a tilapia, but we have cold winters.

Can anyone positively identify it?






Posted By: Bill Cody Re: Need a fish ID - 09/06/18 01:25 AM
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.
Posted By: Lake Vilbig - Al Kohutek Re: Need a fish ID - 09/06/18 01:37 AM
after some of the posts on the fishing forum, I am thinking it is a mayan cichlid
Posted By: Lake Vilbig - Al Kohutek Re: Need a fish ID - 09/06/18 01:52 AM
after some of the posts on the fishing forum, I am thinking it is a mayan cichlid
Posted By: Lake Vilbig - Al Kohutek Re: Need a fish ID - 09/06/18 01:52 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI_HLmre3pI
Posted By: DonoBBD Re: Need a fish ID - 09/06/18 12:38 PM
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.
Posted By: Pat Williamson Re: Need a fish ID - 09/06/18 02:59 PM
Pretty fish whatever it is
Posted By: ewest Re: Need a fish ID - 09/06/18 08:12 PM
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
Posted By: Quarter Acre Re: Need a fish ID - 09/06/18 08:51 PM
Could be a Black Acara - Cichlasoma bimaculatum. They have been found in living in Florida, but I'm not sure about Texas.
Posted By: DonoBBD Re: Need a fish ID - 09/06/18 10:59 PM
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.
Posted By: CJD Re: Need a fish ID - 09/07/18 02:43 PM
Mayan Cichlid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeLav87_w_o
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