Do female HRP have orange on side?

[MonteSS]

As title states. I have found that true HRP dont have the orange that female Cons do.

Is this correct? Are there exceptions?

Thanks...Bill

 

[HybridGS]

Yes.

 

[VRWC]

IME, not always. I had a group of 10 for a few months in a 265g and thought they were mostly male because of a lack of orange. A few months later, I ended up having several pairs and only 2 out of 5 spawning females showed orange.

 

[jgentry]

When young I've had lots of them that show a little orange. It seems to go away as adults though.

 

[cavamart]

I've witnessed the strain I'm working with looses its red in both males and females when mature. Picture of 2" female and a little over 3.5" male. Old picture but, they lost the red flanks and fins when much smaller. They are probably on thier third or forth spawn in the picture.

 

[Peanut_Power]

All of mine are showing the red on their sides right now, and they are from the same parents pictured above. They are still small though, still have a ways to grow. Definitely females though.

 

[cichlidfish]

Mine has orange and she is little (3'').

 

[cavamart]

HRP are a hard species to verify specific traits throughout the whole line. There are a half a dozen collection points for fish being called HRP and all the HRP/Nigrofasciatus mixes out there makes a mess of it at best.

 

[Peanut_Power]

HRP are a hard species to verify specific traits throughout the whole line. There are a half a dozen collection points for fish being called HRP and all the HRP/Nigrofasciatus mixes out there makes a mess of it at best.

+1

 

[Mad About Cichlids]

The HRP around here are the ones with pink/red in the fins and they have some orange. Like Cavamart says it probably depends on where they're from/collected.

These two are young specimens

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