Fishroom Cichlid Trivia Quiz Answers - November 11, 2002 (FishRoom Log)
1) Answer: A) Herichthys cyannoguttatus - The Texas Cichlid

2) Answer:  A) Amazon River system

3) Answer:  B) Hoplarchus psitticus  - The true "Parrot" Cichlid

4) Answer:  D) Copadichromis azeurus

5) Answer:  D)  Oreochromis In the late 1990's the total production of  tilapia had exceeded 1 million metric tons per year

6) Answer:  D) Scales

7) Answer:  B) Paretroplus menarambo or the "Pin Striped Damba"

8) Answer:  A) 1831

9) Answer:  D) Tanzania  -  In 1964 the countries of Tanganyika and Zanzibar  merged to form the nation of Tanzania

10) Answer:  A) Haiti  -  Nandopsis haitiensis

11) Answer:  C) Bio-cover on an item  - Term often associated with the lush algal  gardens found on the rocks within the rift lakes.   Not only does this contain  algae but a whole host of other invertebrate life.  

12) Answer:  C) Enlarged fleshy lips

13) Answer: D) Ptyochromis sp. "Salmon" Hippo Point

14) Answer: A) A species that incubates their eggs in the buchal cavity  immediately after fertilization

15) Answer :  B) 5 Species   P. humilis, P. pulcher, P. roloffi, P. subocellatus,  P. taeniatus

16) Answer:  A) Ikola

17) Answer:  B) Laid in thick sticky strings

18) Answer:  A) Vegetation - a GREAT addition to your planted aquaria!

19) Answer:  D) Presence of second set of jaws - Broken lateral line - single  nostrils on each side

20) Answer:  B)

21) Answer:  C) Lake Nawampasa

22) Answer: B) Triglachromis otostigma

23) Answer:  B) Pondus Hydrogenii - Latin to which translates to the "Potential  of Hydrogen"

24) Answer:  B) Lake Victoria

25) Answer: A) Lake Malawi (viewed from the North)

26) Answer:  A)  Lamprologus lethops  -  Native to fast flowing rivers within The  Democratic Republic of Zaire or Congo or whatever that country wants to call itself today

27) Answer:  C) Have been found in marine environments within the Gulf of Mexico.

28) Answer:  A) Earth Rakers

29) C) Close to the bottom  - The vast majority of cichlid species are  considered to be benthic fish.

30) Answer: D) Tahuantinsuyoa macantzatza