Who can ID this beauty

[5x5]

Hukit already insulted this poor guy calling him a science experiment!

 

[Samzter]

Um I actually have no idea? Doesn't look like anything I've seen...

 

[CalebZachary]

Looks like deformed genitals...

 

[ktomminello]

Flower horn cichlid

 

[ktomminello]

Hukit already insulted this poor guy calling him a science experiment!

Lol, hukit hates flowerhorns because they are a man made laboratory manufactured cocktail of cichlid species.

 

[jwh0818]

That would be a weird looking flower horn

 

[5x5]

Close, but it's not a flowerhorn!

 

[jwh0818]

Close, but it's not a flowerhorn!

Then its a broke horn jk! What is it?

 

[ktomminello]

Is it a frontosa hybrid?

 

[5x5]

Is it a frontosa hybrid?

Nope. Double wrong, It's a New World and its not a hybrid.

 

[ktomminello]

Tri something our other, lmao, I can't think of it right now but if you know what I mean correct me

 

[5x5]

Tri something our other, lmao, I can't think of it right now but if you know what I mean correct me

trimaculatus? Getting warmer, but still the wrong continent.

 

[ktomminello]

trimaculatus? Getting warmer, but still the wrong continent.

Yes, thank you!! Omg I was going nuts!! What family of cichlidae is it in?

 

[5x5]

Yes, thank you!! Omg I was going nuts!! What family of cichlidae is it in?

Is that a trick question? Cichlidae is the family.

I think you are looking for the genus and I'm afraid that would be a rather large giveaway.

 

[ktomminello]

Is that a trick question? Cichlidae is the family.

I think you are looking for the genus and I'm afraid that would be a rather large giveaway.

That was what I meant, then, that in and of itself is a giveaway, but I have to find it in my Web history, have been researching NW cichlids lately...

 

[bob mccoy]

Aphilophus

 

[5x5]

Ok, I thought some one would have got it right away. Guess that nuchal disaster was throwin everybody off.

It's a run of the mill (albeit ugly) male Hypselecara temporalis. This one was photographed at the mystic aquarium in Connecticut. Yes, right by mystic pizza.

 

[Oscar_Lover5412]

Ok, I thought some one would have got it right away. Guess that nuchal disaster was throwin everybody off.

It's a run of the mill (albeit ugly) male Hypselecara temporalis. This one was photographed at the mystic aquarium in Connecticut. Yes, right by mystic pizza.

I do not know scientific names does that mean chocolate

 

[Freakgecko91]

Darn! I was just about to type hypselecara temporalis and then saw you gave up the ID!

 

[Freakgecko91]

I do not know scientific names does that mean chocolate

A quick google search will show that yes, hypselecara temporalis=chocolate cichlid