Convict cichlids

I don't know how they got here, but convict cichlids now live in southern Idaho. They have a fantastical die-off rate during the winter but they breed enough to make a mouse blush so they quickly repopulate. How will this impact native species. (Side-question: Is there a difference between introduced and invasive?)

I would assume that in ID these fish must be found in some type of warm water eflux. If this is the case, then they should pose little problem outside of their confined warm area.

Yeah, kind of like those stupid tilapia! Haha, I feel like I'm six again, using stupid as a legitimate insult.

Are their any african cichlids (mbuna) in the same system? They would stay deeper.

Is the system a hot spring?

Are their any african cichlids (mbuna) in the same system? They would stay deeper.

Is the system a hot spring?

COPY AND PASTE from this link.http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.asp?speciesID=447


The only documented case in Idaho is an established population of an amelanic form in Barney Hot Spring and the upper end of Barney Creek in Little Lost River Valley, Custer County; introduction into the site first was reported in 1985, when a sample of 19 fish (15-92 mm SL) was taken on 7 September 1985 (Courtenay et al. 1987). A report produced by the Idaho Game and Fish (Fisheries Management Plan 1991-1995) listed this species as being confined to one or a few geothermal waters in the region known as Snake River drainage below Shoshone Falls, in the south central part of the state; however, that report may contain erroneous information. Numerous specimens were collected from an unnamed tributary to Big Branch Bayou in Lacombe,

http://www.idahoafs.org/fishes.php

(Cichlidae)

• Convict cichlid (Archocentrus nigrofasciatus)
• Mozambique tilapia (Tilapia mossambica)
• Redbelly tilapia (Tilapia zilli)

Edited by CATfishTONY, 20 December 2009 - 12:14 PM.

COPY AND PASTE from this link.http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.asp?speciesID=447


The only documented case in Idaho is an established population of an amelanic form in Barney Hot Spring and the upper end of Barney Creek in Little Lost River Valley, Custer County; introduction into the site first was reported in 1985, when a sample of 19 fish (15-92 mm SL) was taken on 7 September 1985 (Courtenay et al. 1987). A report produced by the Idaho Game and Fish (Fisheries Management Plan 1991-1995) listed this species as being confined to one or a few geothermal waters in the region known as Snake River drainage below Shoshone Falls, in the south central part of the state; however, that report may contain erroneous information. Numerous specimens were collected from an unnamed tributary to Big Branch Bayou in Lacombe,

http://www.idahoafs.org/fishes.php

(Cichlidae)

• Convict cichlid (Archocentrus nigrofasciatus)
• Mozambique tilapia (Tilapia mossambica)
• Redbelly tilapia (Tilapia zilli)

Thanks catfish for the report....I guess its time to go Tilapia fishing! I just hope the convicts dont become acclimated to colder weather !