Fish ID what could it be ?

[paezsoup]

 

[BigManAquatics]

According to what i saw on google lens search, a teleogramma is the closesti can get, a type of cichlid.

 

[coralbandit]

Thinking a deformed apisto?

 

[qldmick]

Looks a little bit like a deformed pike cichlid.

 

[DoubleDutch]

Crenicichla of some sort I'd say.

 

[paezsoup]

There is two exactly the same in the same tank so I find it weird both are deformed , and these do not sit at the bottom they are actively middle tank swimmers …..so yeah….idk
One is about 8 inches and the one pictured about 10 inches

 

[Cardak]

Where did you get it from? LFS? Hobbyist? Or wild caught?

 

[TClare]

Any chance of more photos from different angles? Could it be a Teleocichla (close relative of Crenicichla)? If wild caught where did they come from?

OK I have just found a reference to a dolphin head pike cichlid, could be this, very rare apparently - but I could not find any scientific name? chromedome52 ?

 

[Feohw]

Crenicichla johanna, the deformed mouth is something occasionally seen in this species.

 

[TClare]

Crenicichla johanna, the deformed mouth is something occasionally seen in this species.

So maybe this is what the rare so-called "dolphin head pike cichlid" really is?
Dolphin Head Pike Cichlid for sale

 

[Feohw]

So maybe this is what the rare so-called "dolphin head pike cichlid" really is?
Dolphin Head Pike Cichlid for sale

Maybe, though the only picture under that name is a very stressed individual that isn't showing any colour.

 

[86 ssinit]

There is two exactly the same in the same tank so I find it weird both are deformed , and these do not sit at the bottom they are actively middle tank swimmers …..so yeah….idk
One is about 8 inches and the one pictured about 10 inches

It does look like a deformity. Probably should have been culls. Came from the same breeder so there could have been a tank full of them. Or if there were other fish in the tank did these guys look anything like the others?

 

[paezsoup]

By the way they are with discus fish in the tank as tank mates I will try to get more pictures soon