Texas cichlid or Green Terror

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They can change colour for many reasons not just breeding.Stress, aggression, mating can all bring on a change in colour pattern.
 
Frank Castle said:
it was by itself, only one in the store
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That would be it's breeding colors, 100%. Its very cool to witness as it is a very dramatic change. Here's an example of what one will look like when it wants to breed. I've had quite a few texas cichlids before. I don't know of any fish that changes as much as a tex.

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Skalper666 said:
That would be it's breeding colors, 100%. Its very cool to witness as it is a very dramatic change. Here's an example of what one will look like when it wants to breed. I've had quite a few texas cichlids before. I don't know of any fish that changes as much as a tex.

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Check out the yellow labridens, that's a dramatic colour changer.
 
Skalper666 said:
The fish thay Fastfisher5 posted is a carpintis. A cyan has a lot of very tiny spots, and is much less common.
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Ok, so as long as we all agree we are not talking about "TRUE" Texas Cichlid...........now what kind of carpintis, guys? and how do I tell them apart ? I got the genus differences ; Pearl-scaled have bigger pearly scales, now what about separating sub-species?

This poor guy's thread LOL I'm sorry brother, you just sparked a huge question I have been wondering for years with this thread and now that there's some pros here I just want more info lol

good help for both of us :D MFK owns.
 
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Haha no worries Frank. I'm glad I at least brought something useful up. I really like Carpintas but will it be able to live with a JD and FM? And is there anyway to sex them at this age? Thanks to everybody whos helping btw. I appreciate it. Looks like I'll read up on Texas Cichlids though school haha
 
Frank Castle said:
Ok, so as long as we all agree we are not talking about "TRUE" Texas Cichlid...........now what kind of carpintis, guys? and how do I tell them apart ? I got the genus differences ; Pearl-scaled have bigger pearly scales, now what about separating sub-species?

This poor guy's thread LOL I'm sorry brother, you just sparked a huge question I have been wondering for years with this thread and now that there's some pros here I just want more info lol

good help for both of us :D MFK owns.
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There's the cyan, the carpintis, and then a lot of hybrids. Red texas is just a hybrid too.
 
Skalper666 said:
There's the cyan, the carpintis, and then a lot of hybrids. Red texas is just a hybrid too.
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ok yea, that I'm aware of, but what is the deal with all the sub-species I started seeing when I joined here. You don't really see that stuff in LFSs....carpintis has like a bunch of of sub-species or locales... there's threads here that have H.c. with at least 4 ssp. listed w/ pix. From what I understand carpintis doesn't exist north of the Rio Grande, it's all cyannoguttatus. Carpintis is strictly a Mexican species, then ssp extend south...
 
Frank Castle said:
ok yea, that I'm aware of, but what is the deal with all the sub-species I started seeing when I joined here. You don't really see that stuff in LFSs....carpintis has like a bunch of of sub-species or locales... there's threads here that have H.c. with at least 4 ssp. listed w/ pix. From what I understand carpintis doesn't exist north of the Rio Grande, it's all cyannoguttatus
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Not sure about the sub species. I know some people believe that the carpintis is just a hybrid of a cyan found in the wild. Therefore some people will call their hybrids carpintis.
 
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