Help Identify New Fish

[Cenobite]

Can someone help me identify my new fish. I came home from work and my girlfriend had bought them (but she didnt ask what they were )

They are a brown speckled colour and have an odd shape, because they hardly have a tail. They remind me of puffer fish because the eyes are a little bulbous and move independantly.

Sorry this is a little vague and sorry for the poor picture, but it was taken with a camera phone and they are always hiding )

 

[cometcattle]

Is it a Leaf fish?

http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showto...=0&#entry485251

 

[Cenobite]

Nope, dont think so. My GF said it had a latin name and she thinks it began with 'C' and that they are cichlids (I must stop her going to the fish store )

Also these guys only have tiny mouths unlike the Leaf Fish

 

[aberdeen aquarist]

some kind of ctenopoma (sp.) i think, but they aren't cichlids.

 

[Cenobite]

Yeah thats them, thanks aberdeen aquarist

(Dont know if I can post links here so I'll edit it)


Here's what they look like

h**p/aquaworld.netfirms.com/Labyrinthfish/Ctenopoma/Ctenopoma_acutirostre.htm

 

[Dwarfs]

The leopard pattern doesn't fit the leaf fish's patterns

 

[bunjiweb]

Climbing Perch?

Are they brackish?

I may be wrong.

Ben

 

[Cenobite]

Sorry guys aberdeen aquarist already identified them, they are Leopard Ctenopoma

Edit, sorry bunjiweb I think they are also known as Climbing Perch, dont know if they are brackish though

 

[ryan]

Looks like a Ctenopoma acutirostre, see here . Certainly is one of the Ctenopoma genus.

 

[Dwarfs]

Their body shape is very similar to the leafs, bet they eat better too

 

[bunjiweb]

Sorry I didnt realise it had already been mentioned, I dont know all the scientific names yet..

Cool fish but I suggest you find out more about it. You dont want a brackish fish living in a FW setup if it is indeed a brackish dweller.

Ben

 

[ryan]

They are a freshwater species coming from the Congo Basin and surronding areas in Africa.

 

[Dwarfs]

These guys are mixed in with bettas gouramis etc, I don't think they're brackish