Green texas or hybrid?
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First of all, let me say that your texas is beautiful man.
Second of all, I have one that looks exactly like yours and about the same size. I got it from the local lfs when less than an inch long. I know for a fact that it isn’t a red texas as someone earlier stated because I’ve seen the parents.
I think that our fish are a mix between a regular (cyanoguttatum) which looks like the picture that carolinafishkeeper posted, and a green texas (carpintis) which looks like the picture that Fishluvr12 posted.
The reason I believe this is because the regular texas cichlid have almost perfectly spaced round dot types spots and are more of a white/gold color with hardly any orange or red. The green texas has randomly spaced and randomly shaped spots that are quite larger than the regular texas and they have more red, orange, and blue/green coloring.
The texas that you and I have shows a spotting and coloring pattern of the green texas, but the spots are not quite as large as most of the pictures I have seen of the green texas. I think that there are as many mixes of texas cichlids as there are of true cyanoguttatum or carpintis.
Second of all, I have one that looks exactly like yours and about the same size. I got it from the local lfs when less than an inch long. I know for a fact that it isn’t a red texas as someone earlier stated because I’ve seen the parents.
I think that our fish are a mix between a regular (cyanoguttatum) which looks like the picture that carolinafishkeeper posted, and a green texas (carpintis) which looks like the picture that Fishluvr12 posted.
The reason I believe this is because the regular texas cichlid have almost perfectly spaced round dot types spots and are more of a white/gold color with hardly any orange or red. The green texas has randomly spaced and randomly shaped spots that are quite larger than the regular texas and they have more red, orange, and blue/green coloring.
The texas that you and I have shows a spotting and coloring pattern of the green texas, but the spots are not quite as large as most of the pictures I have seen of the green texas. I think that there are as many mixes of texas cichlids as there are of true cyanoguttatum or carpintis.
