Red devil or midas

[Terry L Hamilton]

Can anyone help me with this

 

[RD.]

Where did you buy it? Most sold at LFS are crosses between the two, generally if you have to ask, that's what you have.

https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/...king-if-you-have-a-midas-or-red-devil.367826/

Impossible to sex with certainty without seeing the vent.

 

[justarn]

Agreed

 

[duanes]

There are actually at least 13 species of Amphilophus that all look similar and from a number of Nicaraguan lakes, and without knowing which lake it came from, there is no way to tell them apart.
If you got it from a LFS, as the others have said, it is likely to be a hybrid two or more (ancestrally) of those 13.
There is
A amarillo
A astorquii
A chancho
A citrinellus
A flaveolus
A globosus
A labiatus
A sgaittae
A sp fatlip
A supercilious
A tolteca
A viridus
A xiloensus and
A zaliosus
and all the above are capable of producing, white, orange, and yellow morphs, and/or striped (barred morphs) in the same spawn, from any color parents.

 

[RD.]

13 species that we are currently aware of, at this time. lol

 

[duanes]

I agree that the 13 is probably only the tip of the iceberg the way DNA is developing, in 10 years there may be 13 more.
I've kept flaveolus, amarillo, labiatus, lyonsi and trimaculatus, and especially when young, they all look alike in one way or the other, except maybe trimaculatus.

young amarillo above, below a little older

below young flaveolus

below young lyons i

below young trimaculatus

below older trim pair

female spawning color

 

[Galantspeedz]

Since we are on this topic.... what do you all think?

 

[RD.]

Hybrid cross, most likely with rose queen, or some form of, or some other fish carrying fader FH genes.

 

[Galantspeedz]

Never knew there was a rose queen fish... interesting

 

[RD.]

Here's some pics of one that Mo recently acquired.

https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/...shroom-purple-rose-queen.707748/#post-7983071