Help ID all these weirdos...
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 8:25 pm
Caught all these fish today, but couldn't find a good ID to them... Anyone pls share your opinions!
the first one somehow looks like a hybrid to mePeace wrote:Apart from the first picture, the rest are Mayan Cichlids. I'm not too sure what the first fish is but it looks kind of like a Redbelly tilapia (more pictures). Nice catches by the way.
haha thanks, got no time for coastal fishing grounds so decide to do some inland waterways instead. The mayans doesn't look red!Peace wrote:Apart from the first picture, the rest are Mayan Cichlids. I'm not too sure what the first fish is but it looks kind of like a Redbelly tilapia (more pictures). Nice catches by the way.
I think so too, 1st look I thought it was a juv green chromide. Lots of weird stuff out there.patrick2405 wrote:the first one somehow looks like a hybrid to mePeace wrote:Apart from the first picture, the rest are Mayan Cichlids. I'm not too sure what the first fish is but it looks kind of like a Redbelly tilapia (more pictures). Nice catches by the way.
The red isn't always prominent or can be absent, I guess it can be due to the environment it dwells in.Shrimp wrote:The mayans doesn't look red!
This one should be of the same species as the one in the first photo, it's lacking the reddish tinge though. Then again it could possibly be a crossbred cichlid.Shrimp wrote:Another one here
sure. i was just thinking our canals and small waterways are all infested with hybrid cichlids, what could be the cause?patrick2405 wrote:where do you fish?
Edit: Patrick, threadstarter requests that discussion to be kept on topic. Thanks for the co-operation.
- Peace
Thanks. I think I killed them with the castPeace wrote:Hmm, I've never really tried hooking a cichlid as bait but I reckon it's the same with herrings and scads. Just don't hook too close to the vital parts of the fish and they should be fine. You can try hooking slightly infront of caudal peduncle (the part between the body and tail), this part will give you the most grip. If light casting is used, you hook just below its dorsal fin, but not too deep down the body.
Sometimes the fish dies because of trauma from out of water too long or impact of the cast as well.