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JimTheBetta
01-25-2009, 01:51 AM
Went today to a chinese restaruant with my co-workers, and right when we walk in they have a 100g tank with 4 fish (over stocked, 2 blood parrots, 1 silver arowana, and this unknown fish).

When i first walked in i thought it was a Red Belly Pacu. Then when i actually got a second to look at it after the meal i saw it was no Pacu. It had the same kind of characteristics as cichlids like oscars, and even parrots.

It was fairly large, a deep black color, maybe a really dark brown. The fins where a deep red tint on the edges and tips.

It looked a lot like this cichlid in terms of the mouth shape and the fin structure, but as I said he was a dark solid color, but with the red fins.
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Its been driving me nuts all day. I've been searching online but I can't figure it out. For all I know its not a cichlid, or a hybrid, I can't tell. This wasn't there only tank, they also had I'd bet a 30-40g saltwater hex tank, but only thing in it was a peppermint shrimp and a small clown fish. It looked quite nice actually with a Fluval canister filter, and a very nice looking protein skimmer.

cocoa_pleco
01-25-2009, 01:52 AM
jaguar maybe?

Northernguy
01-25-2009, 02:15 AM
How about a giant red finned gourami!

Demi ^_^
01-25-2009, 02:23 AM
I think a Giant Gourami too.. From teh description anyway.. Did the fish have the 'feelers'?

JimTheBetta
01-25-2009, 09:01 AM
I think it might have, and i think we have an ID. Looking at the photo, the face on it looks very much like the one in the tank :D Thank everyone very much, as I said it was driving me up a wall. Explains why I wasn't finding it, looking in the wrong spiecies :P

mac
01-25-2009, 09:19 AM
To me unless it has visible feelers. Which will be easy to id on the fish, I think it is some type of Cichlid and not a Gourami.

The face is to pointed, for a Gourami.

mac

cocoa_pleco
01-25-2009, 04:36 PM
it looks like a deeply colored or variant of a jaguar

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JimTheBetta
01-25-2009, 06:25 PM
It might very well have had feelers, but the mouth looks exactly like the one on the pictures of the gourami. The shape, and color of one i found doing a google image search is exactly like the one they have at this restaraunt.