They are not rare, but are not usually found in LFSs, unless someone in your area has a spawning pair, or has turned an adult in, after it killed everything else in the tank.
They are commonly available thru any of the respected on-line Central American vendors often seen and mentioned in posts on MFK.
They are not a community cichlid, unless your tank is in the hundreds of gal size.
male
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female
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