Help ID. Doesn't look like a managuense to me.

[twhittle]

Picked up this 13 inch brute today. They sold him to me as a managuense despite me telling them I didnt think he looked like one. What do you see here? Hybrid? Motaguense?

 

[tlindsey]

Picked up this 13 inch brute today. They sold him to me as a managuense despite me telling them I didnt think he looked like one. What do you see here? Hybrid? Motaguense?

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Looks like a Beani Cichlid

 

[pelleeklund]

Not seeing Jag, at least not 100% Jag based on its size.

 

[newworld]

Male motaguense?

 

[Carter020108]

Just one huge managuense look at this one

If you look at upper lip there is slight gold coloration

 

[Carter020108]

Also if you look closely there is a faded horizontal stripe beani do not get horizontal stripes

 

[Rass]

Male mota, or maybe some sort of hybrid if I had to guess.

 

[Carter020108]

No motaguense would have large black spot on bottom cheek

 

[HybridFinatic]

Lots of mixed answers some wrong some possibly right but this is definitely a variation of Parachromis multifasciatus formally friedrichsthalii or possibly hybrid of it but I don’t think so. Not a managuensis or even a hybrid of managuensis.

 

[duanes]

Here is a young motaguense to compare



male in the background.
and below Mayaheros beanii, but this is just one variant. From other rivers there are variants with much more predominant spotting


and females in spawning color can be quite different