Guys

I saw an add in the classifieds today of a guy selling a tank with fish "if they are alive when you get here"

Thinking this was terribad I went over this afternoon to try to rescue some...

It was worse than I though - lots of large cichlids (and others) sitting in a cooler bag.

I managed to convince the guy to sell the lot to me for $20 but I really need to identify them in order to work out whether I can keep them or so I can pass them on to better homes.

In the tank before the rescues:

- Baby Oscar
- 2 x Green Severum
- 2 x Bistlenosed Catfish
- 10 Black widow tetras
- 2 x Piscus Catfish

And now the pictures of the rescues. If you could help id, as well as suggest which ones I should keep and which ones i should re-home that would be greatly appreciated!

Jack Dempsey?




Some random catfish like thing:





Silver dollar?


Yellow cichlid and ?






Similar to the one above, no stripes, red at base of side fins...


ALSO

Black Ghost Knife fish

I am a rescuer, too. Good luck to you, and you did the right thing by them.

Goob_Scooper wrote:


looks like a male jd to me but a side shot would really help



african maybe some type of hap or peacock im not quite sure





another african no idea on the species



looks like one



there is a yellow lab in there not sure of the other one



kinda looks like a chinese algea eater





too blurry to tell

ALSO

Black Ghost Knife fish[/quote]


hope this helps some

Pic 1 looks like a blue acara (aequidens pulcher) but my fish recognition isn't good so is more likely not, lol

Hello,
The top one, I'm fairly sure, is not actually a Jack Dempsey. The random catfish thing is a species of corydora, probably peppered or common, but I'm unsure about the others. Good luck!

marcus wrote:



definately a female blue acara .........(the first pic)

i agree with necro for the others