My knowledge of this fish is limited to the observation of it in the upper Jatapu River region of Brazil. In this region, this fish is only found living in rock structures. It lives in deep crevasse in the rocks, barely wide enough for it to fit in. I spent many thousands of hours diving in this river over a 20-year span, and never saw one in the open water or any other type of structure.
In the online articles about it (which are extremely limited), it says " The species is an ambush predator that lives among the vegetation on the banks of its habitat rivers."
That may be true in other regions, but not true in the Jatapu river. There is another type of cichlid (Possibly: Pearl Cichlid), which is similar, that this statement is true for, but not for the Rosy.
It seems you are semi-new to Inat, so welcome!
About half of my observations are at Needs ID, and about half of my observations from 2020-22 are also Needs ID. I almost exclusively upload plants from Long Island so lots of photos will get buried in an area where I am the most active plant identifier. Itâs frustrating that this happens, but I do think there has been some progress on this.
I just identified some of your Needs ID plants from Texas, couldnât do all of them cause I wasnât sure on some.
Thank you. Yes, I am very new to iNaturalist. Up to now, I have been using multiple apps for different things. Merlin for birds. PlantNet for plants, and Facebook groups for everything else.
A biologist at a Texas State Park put me on to iNat. I love it! One app to do it all, and an awesome community to help as well. I am so thankful.
I often search iNat for plants I know well and then sort by date ascending (so I see older ones first) and filter by âneeds IDâ and âReviewedâ = No (meaning I have not already IDâd the plant). This will bring me a lot of older plants that need IDs and often I can help with those. I am not a botanist, but there are some plants that I know well here on the Oregon coast that do not have difficult look-a-likes (so those are the ones I focus on). All of this just to share that there are some of us that do go through some of the older observations.
Also, as others have said, if you do not know the species, if you can ID to genus or even just say if it is a plant, fungus, animal, etc., that will help. I often search the Oregon coast for âplantsâ that need an ID and see if there are any I can help with. So thatâs another way (as opposed to leaving it as unknown) to help your observations be seen by those with knowledge/interest.