Does this little guy looks more like a Midas or a Red Devil to you guys?

[Fanatic_Fish_Lunatic]

It´s interesting how many (what I consider either uneducated, or oblivious) aquarists with think, red devil, Texas cichlids, or starry night cichlids, will be thought of in a blanket and generic term, because their colors are superficially simllar, when actually each is a group of many separate and unique cichlids.
Red Devils can be any of about 15 species in the genus Amphilophus .
Texas cichlids, are often confused with about 6 different species in the genus Herichthys, with only 1 species actually being from Texas, and all others found in Mexico. and
Starry night cichlids come from the genus Paratilapia, where there about 5 scientifically decribed species, with more as yet to be discovered in the remote island of Madagacar.
Its too bad really, because that lack of attention to detail, and disregard for the legitimacy of species, and has led up to the situation we are in, with LFSs laden with unidentifiable mutts.
Try to find legetimate African species in a LFS these days.
But even worse.....to me....is the lack of respect for legitimate species, and intentionally creating man made genetic anomolies and franken cichlids.

By genetic anomalies, you meant those of blood parrots, polar blue and flowerhorns and something along these lines, right? Or you meant every types of hybrids and crossbreed? Since I've seen some who has their dovii mated with a jag. To me, I have no problem with hybrid and crossbreed, as long as they don't come out deformed or have hard time living. Such as blood parrot, their mouths and inconvenient for themselves, and not to mention that their tails often got cut off to be sold off as another 'more expensive' variant, talk about animal cruelty haha. And Flowerhorns, I think their head bump is too large for them, it could be heavy and they could easily injured themselves with something that big. Also if it's hybrid and crossbreed, I don't see any problem if the sellers actually gives the right information and don't spread misinformation or blatantly lie to their clients. To this day, I can't find any true convict cichlid in my country and only found polar blue parrots

 

[HUKIT]

By genetic anomalies, you meant those of blood parrots, polar blue and flowerhorns and something along these lines, right?

A genetic anomaly in cichlids is any significant genetic variation from the typical pattern, which can include gene duplications, chromosomal inversions, or specific gene mutations that influence traits like coloration, behavior, or morphology. The examples you listed are man made abominations not a natural occurring genetic anomaly.

 

[duanes]

To me, any hybrid, genetically mutational aboration, or man induced color variation is a fake cichlid.
I don´t care if its a deformed BP, a FH , an EBJD, or an intentiional Dovii/managuense cross, they all become useless to me, and are worthless. for breediong purposes. because of the scrambled genes.
One of the reasons I moved to Panama, was to catch my own wild (pure) unadulterated land egitimate cichlids.

 

[newworld]

Vieja comes to mind i’m very wary buying them unless i know what they are….all they mixes w childish names i also have no use for…