Curious about Texas...

[Alexxxxsv14]

mine is breeding and their color is just amazing .. they get black down half of the body. when do u pick ures up ?

 

[Natural_Born_Killer]

I am going to call back on shop to see if they can get the true tex, if not I'll pick the green in about two-three weeks...

 

[VRWC]

I would hunt down a Escondido. Those are the best looking. If you can score 2, then you could possibly breed them. And that would be REALLY fun.

If you cannot locate any of those, shoot for a Carpintes. That is what I landed at the LFS luckily.

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escondido is a carpintis...just a regional variant of a carpintis.

if you read this thread from the beginning, there are some posts explaining the difference between all these mis-named/mistakingly named fish.

The confusion stops when people stop calling a carpintis a green texas, a flowerhorn a red texas etc...there is only ONE Texas cichlid and its a cyanoguttatus, not carpintis. Lets start calling them correctly to stop the confusion.

 

[jcardona1]

escondido is a carpintis...just a regional variant.

if you read this thread from the beginning, there are some posts explaining the difference between all these mis-named/mistakingly named fish.

The confusion stops when people stop calling a carpintis a green texas, a flowerhorn a red texas etc...there is only ONE Texas cichlid and its a cyanoguttatus, not carpintis. Lets start calling them correctly to stop the confusion.

escondido just has a few different markings on the face. not worth all the hype if you ask me. and i HATE the "texas" label. it causes so much damn confusing. you got true texas, false texas, blue texas, green texas, turquoise texas, aquamarine texas, texas texas and the list goes on.

please folks lets learn the real name...its not that hard

 

[VRWC]

heres one I was talking about

True Texas arent worthless, especially in the Netherlands & Europe. They arent very common and I see more Escondidos in LFS than I do Texas. Actually, Ive never seen a common Texas in a LFS come to think of it. They are cool fish, lots of personality, borderline super aggressive & look VERY COOL in breeding dress.

"Texas Cichild" Herichthys cyanoguttatus

Herichthys cyanoguttatus in breeding dress

http://wrongcrowd.com/albums/aq-critters/green_texas_cichlid_fry1.jpg


I have seen 3 different variants of Herichthys Carpintis:

escondido - more turquoise in color, wormish looking marks around the mouth (like a green terror kind of)

chariel - big roundish close together spots, more gold in color than the other 2

lahillas more blue and black, smaller spots spread apart more, lower profiled than the other 2 variants

The easiest way to tell the difference is the spots are different sized and the markings around the eyes and mouth are different, mainly with the carpintis and all 3 carpintis are locale differences and specific to their gathering locations (all of which are within 200 miles of each other I believe).

 

[BigCountry]

escondido is a carpintis...just a regional variant of a carpintis.

if you read this thread from the beginning, there are some posts explaining the difference between all these mis-named/mistakingly named fish.

The confusion stops when people stop calling a carpintis a green texas, a flowerhorn a red texas etc...there is only ONE Texas cichlid and its a cyanoguttatus, not carpintis. Lets start calling them correctly to stop the confusion.

Your point? I never denied or argued that. what else do you expect me to call them when referring to them? lol

 

[jcardona1]

Your point? I never denied or argued that. what else do you expect me to call them when referring to them? lol

i think he said that because you made it seem like they were two different species by saying to look for an "escondido" and if you cant find one, just get a "carpintis". but the fact is that theyre the same species, just a different variant. just causes confusion to those that dont know about these fish

 

[VRWC]

I would hunt down a Escondido. Those are the best looking. If you can score 2, then you could possibly breed them. And that would be REALLY fun.

If you cannot locate any of those, shoot for a Carpintes. That is what I landed at the LFS luckily.

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my point is, AN ESCONDIDO IS A CARPINTIS. You said above, if you cant get an escondido, get a carpintis.

 

[BigCountry]

Yeah but if I sold them at a LFS I sure as hell would not label/price them the same....that was my reference in the thread.

Damn scientific junkies...lol

 

[VRWC]

Yeah but if I sold them at a LFS I sure as hell would not label/price them the same.

Why not? They are the same thing. There is no ONE fish called a carpintis. There are 3 variants of a carpintis:

Escondido
Chariel
Lahillas

each from 3 different places. Are you under the assumption the escondido is worth more? The other 2 are more rare and even newer to the hobby...and Id be willing to bet you couldnt find a lahillas in a LFS, so by most accounts, that should be the most expensive.