Does this little guy looks more like a Midas or a Red Devil to you guys?
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Bought from a reliable fish shop that specifically sells cichlids in Thailand. But I lost the chat history and the seller also doesn't remember what was it, because I ordered a lot of cichlids back then. So...yeah.
There are at least 15 species of Amphilophus from the lakes in Nicaragua, and all have the ability to adapt into different color morphs, so just looking at a pic is impossible to determine species.
Unless you know the exact lake its ancestors came from its impossible.
And because people have inadvertantly been interbreeding them over years, into midevil mutts, its even more difficult (actuallly ipossible).
Left a banded form Amphillophus amarillo from lake Xiloa, right Amphillophus flavious from Lake Apoyo
There are pink, yellow, creamcicle and banded versions in each of the species
when young they all look quite generic
Unless you know the exact lake its ancestors came from its impossible.
And because people have inadvertantly been interbreeding them over years, into midevil mutts, its even more difficult (actuallly ipossible).
Left a banded form Amphillophus amarillo from lake Xiloa, right Amphillophus flavious from Lake Apoyo
There are pink, yellow, creamcicle and banded versions in each of the species
when young they all look quite generic
