do you know?

[mbunafishkeeper]

does any body know which the original two cichlids were which created the flower horn cichlid?
i am curious since they are very hard to get hold of in the UK. i only found out that they were a hybrid the other day and wondered if any one knew.

thanks Howard

 

[Mystix212]

Good question. Im thinking Red Devil x Texas?

 

[Cross127]

Trimac and Red Devil cross.

 

[cookiemonster]

My understanding was that no one knows for sure. I have heard lots of things including trimac, red devil, parrot, texas, synspilum, etc.

 

[at2]

I have heard Red devil/trimac......but also heard red devil/festae

 

[Cross127]

Definately not RT/RD for the original FH. The original FH had Trimac in it. There is many different FH's though now with Texas and others in it.

 

[Vicious_Fish]

They have to have Tri-mac in them. Lots of low grade FH's can be confused for Tri-macs.

 

[altimaser]

According to Wikipedia, it was orginally a Trimac + Texas Cichlid.

 

[mbunafishkeeper]

wow thanks for lots of great replies.

 

[mbunafishkeeper]

They have to have Tri-mac in them. Lots of low grade FH's can be confused for Tri-macs.

what do you call a low grade FH???