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Gang,

During a short vacation last week, I made a visit to the Riverhead Aquarium on Long Island. I took about 250 pictures of fishies, most of them from the dark side. These can be found in the General Marine section, in a thread named "Just Some Pictures of Fishies". When it was time to focus on freshwater fish I ran out of storage space on my camera as well as time, the family decided that "we had seen enough" .

So here are just a few shots of the freshwater section, I hope you will enjoy them.

To begin, a Piranha:

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Piranha

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The tank dimensions for these fishies are a little larger than the common hobbyist can provide, so I would not recommend to try this at home, but here is the before mentioned Piranha with his friends:

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A School

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Next I came across a tank that was smaller than my 125G and housed one fish, an electric eel. He was all by himself, I guess that it is not such a surprise given that he is a real shocker .

He was about 2 to 3 feet long.

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Eel

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Already I am on the last section/tank of this little trip, the Malawi (spelling) setup. Here is a shot that shows a good half of the total size of this aquarium, loaded with fishies:

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Africans I

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I have no idea on how they manage to maintain water quality for such a large number of fish in a rather small space, neither do I know how they curb aggression (in the top right section is a small fight between 2 of them going on).

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Africans II

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I don't know much about Malawi cichlids, but is this a Mbuna? He sure was the bluest of all fishies in the tank.

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Fish Details I

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He also didn't like me taking pictures of him, as you can see by the look that he gave me, saying "what are you looking at?"

He spent all the time defending a small part of a rock and got pretty rough with anybody who tried to get there.

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Fish Details II

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Next are a few fishies in this tank that I have no idea on what they are, maybe you want to ID them for future reference.

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Unknown I

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Here is another one that I don't know, but although he is mostly golish/brown I found him rather attractive. The spot pattern on his sides and the lighter fin coloration makes this one stand out from the mass.

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Unknown II

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There were a few fish in that tank that seemed to me to be some albino breed, totally white or white with some blue spots. Is that natural or a captive breed?

On top of it, they reminded me more of Koi than Cichlids.

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Unknown III

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Last but not least, I think this is an electric yellow, right?

Anyway, I hope you liked the short series of shots,

Have fun,

Ingo

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Electric Yellow

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Great pictures LF!

The blue guy looks like a Peacock to me. I am new to African cichlids though, so I can't be sure. It definitely looks like a Hap instead of a Mbuna....but what do I know.

I like the picture of the Electric Yellow especially...hope to have me a group of them soon!

edited: because i'm dumb sometimes...

*Kristin*

Thanks for the comment, GirlieGirl

Yeah, me not knowing the species shows how little I know about African Lake Cichlids , you should check my thread in the Marine Section with pictures of fishies from the dark side. I pretty much got none right there .

Thanks again,

Ingo

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im pretty sure "Unkown1" is a "malawi eyebiter" or Demidiochromis Compressiceps thats all i can help ya with

Nice pics, LF. Off to look at the marine thread now.

Cheers
TW

Very nice pictures LF. Did you take hundreds to get only a few good ones? I tried to take some pictures at the aquariums while I was on my honeymoon but most of them you have no idea what they are.

As for the African Cichlid tanks. The more fish you can cram in the better you are off for agression issues. It is harder for the dominate fish to take out the weeker individual if he can not single him out.

#2 is a hap venustus: the picture below is a colored up male. Yours is probably a female. Looking at your first two pictures you have a nice male in thoughs shots.
http://crazyravr.smugmug.com/photos/61242078-L.jpg

#3 we have at work but I can't remember their name.



Were there any planted tanks?

55G Planted tank thread
19G Container Pond
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Concur - unknown #1 is a Dimidiochromis compressiceps, and #2 is a juvenile Nimbochromis venustus ... incidentally there's a full grown adult in the group shots, it's the big green blotched fish

The very blue fish looks like an Aulonocara species to me, possibly an all-blue morph of stuartgranti ... zoom in on the head area and if it has enlarged sensory pores, then that's the giveaway, as all Aulonocara species have them for homing in on creatures buried in sand.


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great pics ingo







one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen , thats all you need.

OH TOLEEDY!

Could it be Aulonocara stuartgranti (Chirwa Is.) Calilasseia...for the very blue fish? Looks similar.

Peacocks are so pretty!

*just realized I guessed a Peacock in my post above, but then named a non-peacock...silly me*

*Kristin*

Thanks everybody for the comments and compliments so far. Furthermore, it makes me happy that you guys have fun trying to identify the fishies, something I would not be able to do what-so-ever.

Ingo

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