Anyone buy a red texas from petsmart?

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^ I'd say that would depend on what the fish actually looks like more than a label saying what the fish is supposed to be.
 
Kaliedoscope said:
None of the fish i have seen for sale as red texas in petsmart have been red texas actually. I have seen many pearl flowerhorns though sold for six bux. I think they are just breeding texas to red dragons and calling them red texas
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You can get Red Texas just by crossing a Red Dragon with a Texas...I've seen it and done it.
 
I only have one left from the 3 i bought hes about 3" now mean as hell. i have him with my main tank. 9" oscars jags ect. he holds his ground perfectly. it looks nothing at all like a red texas or a flowerhorn. looks like a sysnpilus or synspilus cross.
 
I bought one a couple of months ago and it look like a trimac or a low grade flowerhorn. Its for sure not a red texas. I don't know how petsmart gets away with selling these fish for something they are not.
 
BIG-G said:
I bought one a couple of months ago and it look like a trimac or a low grade flowerhorn. Its for sure not a red texas. I don't know how petsmart gets away with selling these fish for something they are not.
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Because 99% of people don't know they aren't what the label says and I doubt many managers ordering the fish know either. That leaves it to the distributor to be honest and knowledgeable. Most of those guys probably are relying on another person they are getting fish from to tell them. Even if you got the store to admit a 'f'up, they would just blame the next one back for not sending the right fish, and they would blame the guy who they got them from, and he would blame the guy who bagged the order, etc.... An interesting idea would be to figure it all out and then bust them in a class action lawsuit (requires only 30 complaintants to do one). Of course the media would probably enjoy a fluff story too.

Funny - I was hanging out at Petsmart the other day and this guy asked the employee fish about an algae issue he was having. It was simply a bit of green algae, and the employee recommended a pleco. So the guy looks at the plecos and then decided he wanted a gibby pleco because of the better looking spots. The next thing I notice when a glance over there is the employee bagging a synodonis featherfin that is labeled for $17 and then pricing it for $5 as a gibby. I guess Petsmart sometimes is on the losing end.....
 
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