Help ID Convict hybrid?
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THIS is a HRP
Dad
mom
Anything that isn't white base with varying shades of Blue color on them is a con x HRP.
theyre pretty common i've seen loads around. when I bred my pair of HRP that were pure, some of the babies came out platinum.
Also, I did have a con x blue eye cichlid before and it looked kinda like yours
Dad
mom
Anything that isn't white base with varying shades of Blue color on them is a con x HRP.
theyre pretty common i've seen loads around. when I bred my pair of HRP that were pure, some of the babies came out platinum.
Also, I did have a con x blue eye cichlid before and it looked kinda like yours
Depending on who you go by a HRP is a convict just a subspecies or local. If this is so then HRP x average convict is not a hybrid but a mix of locals or strains. At most it is mixing very closely related sub species in which they are completely fertile the only difference being slight color differences and the HRP being a bit smaller at max size.
+1 Not that it really matters though, it seems like cons have a tendency to produce fertile males regardless what you cross them to.
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?570826-fertile-f1-hybrids
HRP are A. Siquia. they have been assigned a name now, so they are a closely related species of Convict. but its still common to see them crossed. True HRP have really strong colors, thats all I was trying to show you guys. Its a nice fish though, looks better than a regular convict.
Yours is almost certainly an HRP. It looks like mine which are 100% HRPs. The pic shows female above, male below.
I have to disagree. I keep HRP's (rio danli strain) and they look nothing like OP's fish in the pic.
I remember talking to Matt (dogofwar) about cryptoheros and amatitlania species and there was one that he mentioned that looked exactly like OP's con. I'll try to look for it.
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see I knew it wasnt a HRP. but that is definately the OP's fish. Good catch there
Yay. Someone on the same page as me.
Off topic:
Do you still have platinum HRP's?
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