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.
