As many of you may know, Viejas can be some of the most spectacular anerican cichlids to own, so when I finally had space (or more like when the missus let me have some), I set up a 4ft bio type tank.
After much hunting around, I nabbed a 8" Vieja Fenestratus which surprisingly became the most submissive fish in their amongst a JD, convict, fire mouth, Texas, Salvini, most of which are half it's size.
Anyway, recently I saw a Vieja Pearsei, or Cichlasoma, whatever the taxonomy feels like doing these days, and promptly brought it home.
It is also the same size (8") as my Fenestratus. For 3 days the Fenestratus climbed to the rank of alpha Cichlid and abused the Pearsei until I came home to roughly 350-400 eggs on some driftwood.
I have been keeping fish and mainly cichlids for nigh on 6 years now, and also work at Australia's leading wholesaler of aquatic fish, so I instinctly knew the eggs were not fertilized when the supposed male of the pair (Pearsei) was not protecting the eggs.
My question here is, does anyone have any experience of such Vieja species crossing, considering the varying taxonomy of them? Or maybe similar species?
We all know fish like red devils and convicts like to sleep around, but I haven't had first hand experience with these before.
Even if I did eventuate with fry, they would of been food for my African display tank that sits beside the American tank.
Some shots of the tank:
After much hunting around, I nabbed a 8" Vieja Fenestratus which surprisingly became the most submissive fish in their amongst a JD, convict, fire mouth, Texas, Salvini, most of which are half it's size.
Anyway, recently I saw a Vieja Pearsei, or Cichlasoma, whatever the taxonomy feels like doing these days, and promptly brought it home.
It is also the same size (8") as my Fenestratus. For 3 days the Fenestratus climbed to the rank of alpha Cichlid and abused the Pearsei until I came home to roughly 350-400 eggs on some driftwood.
I have been keeping fish and mainly cichlids for nigh on 6 years now, and also work at Australia's leading wholesaler of aquatic fish, so I instinctly knew the eggs were not fertilized when the supposed male of the pair (Pearsei) was not protecting the eggs.
My question here is, does anyone have any experience of such Vieja species crossing, considering the varying taxonomy of them? Or maybe similar species?
We all know fish like red devils and convicts like to sleep around, but I haven't had first hand experience with these before.
Even if I did eventuate with fry, they would of been food for my African display tank that sits beside the American tank.
Some shots of the tank:
Though if they do ever breed and the fries get to the free swimming stage, I might be interested in a few to raise up and see what they'd be like. 
Hence why I'm actually really curious as to what your cross would look like.