Help ID this cichlid

Jaysson

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Any kind soul can help ID this cichlid? Found it in a dark corner tank in my LFS and they mention it's a jaguar cichlid...
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krichardson

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Looks like a young Freddy or maybe a motaguense?
 

Jaysson

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Precisely, I was wondering when they said it's a jaguar and they don't even know this fish exist in their shop..:D
 

krichardson

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Precisely, I was wondering when they said it's a jaguar and they don't even know this fish exist in their shop..:D
Probably just a good enough sounding name that came to the employee's mind.
 
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Reiner

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There's probablyat least 3 different species that look like that around 2"-4".

My guess is Freddy or Loisellei. But I can even tell those 2 apart when they are bigger without reading up on it
 
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Jaysson

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Thanks Reiner. I guess I gotta wait till they grow bigger before we could tell them apart...but definitely not a jaguar I assume..
 

RealCrix220

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Yellow jacket (Freddy ) for sure, a red tiger male or female would show some red colouring even at that size I'd say.

I've loaded a photo of my large 8-10 inch Freddy

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