Cyanoguttas

[Otherone]

Not sure if it's male or female not sure anyone can tell from the pics.
He/She has an awesome purple coloration that unfortunatley is not coming out in the pics.

 

[cichlidfish]

I can't see the dorsal fin, but it looks male. If there is a blue/black spot on the dorsal then female. Also yours looks like it is develpoing a hump. This one here doesn't have that.

Here is a female I used to have....

 

[janzal3]

Wow despite the fins, it is still a great looking fish. You can see it has much potential, if it weren't for getting shreded. Texas Ciclids rock. Don't mess with Texas!

 

[Tonivlc]

Hello, Its dificult to identificate sex with this size, but this are carpinte.

 

[jgentry]

Hello, Its dificult to identificate sex with this size, but this are carpinte.

What in the world makes you say it is a capintis? Every texas thread on the site that has a picture of a fish the looks 100% cyano has people saying it's a carpintis or a hybrid of the 2. Please explain how that fish looks anything like a carpintis?

If the fish is new I'd give it some time to settle in and heal it's fins. If it does not have the black spot it is a male. It looks male to me but the black spot can come and go when they are young and you didn't post a size/age so i cannot say for sure.

 

[Cichlidgeek]

Once that fish gets settled in it's gonna be a stunner. There is something to say about a basic, yet beautiful Texas cichlid. Very underappreciated IMHO.
Great fish!!

 

[cichlidfish]

What in the world makes you say it is a capintis? Every texas thread on the site that has a picture of a fish the looks 100% cyano has people saying it's a carpintis or a hybrid of the 2. Please explain how that fish looks anything like a carpintis?

If the fish is new I'd give it some time to settle in and heal it's fins. If it does not have the black spot it is a male. It looks male to me but the black spot can come and go when they are young and you didn't post a size/age so i cannot say for sure.

It is cyano IMO. All the other texas have bigger spots.

Just google images and compare. Here is an example.

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...s?q=herichthys+cyanoguttatus&gbv=2&hl=en&sa=G

 

[jgentry]

That's what I was saying, no way is that fish a carpintis. Yet every one of these threads has someone saying the oposite.

 

[Tonivlc]

Hi, the sellers sell carpintis but they say are cyano.

Cyanoguttatus is pearl colour, some ejemplars have a little green color.

The points are very round, small, aligned and almost perfect.

Carpintis is more blue and green, not pearl colour, have big and disordered points.

Heres some pics of cyano, you can see the diference of colour between the carpintis variety (Carpintis, escondido, lacustrino, de montaña, riverino)

see the points and the colour of REAL cyanoguttatus

With colour of spawn, he have midle black, and midle pearl, and see the PERFECT points.

Here is one article I make time ago in spanis with 2 friends from Mexico, Marco Arroyo and Francisco Gutierrez.

http://www.drpez.net/portal/biblioteca_de_ciclidos/p2_articleid/152

 

[cichlidfish]

That's what I was saying, no way is that fish a carpintis. Yet every one of these threads has someone saying the oposite.

I was backing up your post w/ info I agree w/ you.