Can anyone ID this Parachromis?

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Oscar Mike

Oscar Mike

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Hey guys,

So I called my LFS to ask if they could order me a few RTM's and they said someone actually just dropped one off yesterday. I immediately drove over there and although the guy tried convincing me it was a female mota I'm 99% sure it's a male dovii. MAYBE a male mota but I haven't seen many with green on the face like this and the stripes look more wolf than red tiger to me. What do you guys think? I don't have much experience with mota's but this one looks just like a smaller version of my male dovii.

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Thanks guys I was pretty sure it was a dovii but thought it might be male because it had a lot more spots and green above the lateral line than my old female did. Mine are Costa Rican tho so she was super bright yellow and he's still pretty gold. This one was about 5-6" but they wanted $80! I'm pretty sure they're about to go out of business (just like every other fish store within an hour from here after Petsmart opened) because they were also trying to sell ac110s for $169 and just moved to a smaller location across the street. It's kinda sad so I'd like to help them out by purchasing her but I really want to try breeding my male with a female mota. I had a 3" female that came with my new 240g and they were doing perfect together until I woke up this morning and found her half eaten so either he got tired of waiting for her to spawn or she got too brave in front of my Pacu's mouth. I'm pretty upset atm because I knew she was too small and was literally just about to add a pvc last night or move her to a grow out, but she was the king of the tank following the dovii everywhere and even nipping at the pacu (who will sadly be going to a new home soon before she busts my tank running from the dovii). He showed zero signs of agression towards her and even started displaying his fins so I think a bigger and more mature female mota will work but I'm only gonna try breeding him one more time before he gets the tank to himself
 
Lol with prices like that, I can see why they're going out of business!!! If things are that bad maybe drop prices:/?? If you want a female dovii hit up dogmanx03 on YouTube. His are around same size and going for 10$ each plus they are from a nice strain:)


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Freshwaterpredators said:
Lol with prices like that, I can see why they're going out of business!!! If things are that bad maybe drop prices:/?? If you want a female dovii hit up dogmanx03 on YouTube. His are around same size and going for 10$ each plus they are from a nice strain:)
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Ya seriously, I knew the dovii was overpriced but when I turned around and saw the price tag under that ac I was like dammmm lol. He said there was probably wiggle room on the dovii price so I might've been able to get him down to around the price to have one shipped, but I'm really disappointed about my red tiger because that's my dream hybrid pair so I wanna try one last time before making it a dovii-only tank. Anyone know where I can find a decent sized female mota? Im gonna start a WTB thread soon cuz Rapps and every other place I checked is out except one that had 1" fry
 
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