Honduran Red Points - mature and ready to breed!

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Bump for more great fish - but with this caveat - I have mostly males left so here's the deal - males are still $3.00 each, but pairs are $15 as I only have just a few females left (and for some crazy reason, everyone wants pairs - odd since they will soon have three zillion babies!). Guess they could be great feeder fish makers for you guys with the large and "live food" preferring wet pets though :D

Shipping is NO problem - I am a VERY experienced shipper and have had excellent success during any season. PM if you have questions or want a shipping quote.
 
Hate to tell You,but I,m quite sure those are not Hrps in the pics they are Blue convicts (hrpxregular con)
 
Hate to tell you that you are mistaken. I got them from a VERY reliable source, and have sent them to MANY fish experts who also disagree with you. I don't mean to be rude, but why trash my thread when you don't know what you're talking about?

For the rest of you kind and interested folks - I am in a rush to get this tank out of the house for a big realtor tour of the house followed by a marketing rush by many realtors to show it and sell it. Right now there's way too many BIG tanks in the living dining room, so the prospective home buyers get sidetracked badly with the tanks and miss out on the amenities of the house.

So that said, I'm making the unsexed "grab a fish out of the tank and don't sex it" price $2.00 instead of $3.00. Pairs will still be $15 due to the scarcity of the females (if you just go with the unsexed grab a fish - you may get all females, all males, or get lucky and get a pair). I am seriously motivated to MOVE these fish out of the house! Besides I've had two more spawns in the "family tank" since last month - these "family minded" baby machines need to be in another home! Shipping is absolutely NO problem (I have shipped more than a hundred fish all over the country and in all kinds of weather).
 
Not trying to be rude,just trying to help You and buyers know what they Have and are getting.It's very common for breeders and fish stores to sell blue"convicts" as Hrps
 
mollygirl;1559850; said:
Not to be argumentative, but here's the species info for the two:
Honduran Red Point (Cryptoheros sp. 'honduran red point')
& Convict cichlid (Archocentrus nigrofasciatus)

Again not trying to be rude but to correctly inform You as You are trying to inform people when You don't really know.Cryptoheros & Archocentrus are former classification for these fish.They are now
Amatitlania nigrofasciatus & Amatitlania sp. Honduran red point. They are related
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Anyways, I purchased several of these about a month ago, and they arrived healthy, and beautiful!!! I'm totally satisfied with the fish that I received!!
 
I had the same issue with people claiming mine were not pure. I have F1 HRP's. I bought from very reputable breeder who caught them in the wild and bred them himself, but here is what he had to say about the differences. This is also located in the second link jcardona posted, as thats my thread. As long as you know for sure where they came from and not just a pet store. Good luck with the sale.

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Hi Guys, let me clear a little of this up. There are several races of HRP in the hobby and if you know where yours are from you should not mix them with others as they should be kept pure. Mine are from the Rio Monga at Saba, Honduras, I have made 3 different collections there and use these fish as my breeders. Wild fish can range from grey to bright blue with slightly red fins to intense red fins, not all the females have red bellies either, When collecting we go for the bluer fish of course, but you don't know what the genetics of the wild fish are, they don't use the same criteria that we do when selecting a mate. In F1 spawns I have grown out I've gotten the gamit of color combinations from grey fish with red fins, grey fish with no color in the fins, blue fish with almost no red to a few blue fish wth nice red fins, those are the ones I keep for the next generation. If you buy 1" fry from me you won't know how they color up until they are about 2-2.5" inches, many pairs turn nearly black when they breed like the first pair pictured. Most of the commercial bred HRP sold in pet stores are of the Rio Danli race which is from western Honduras and they have somewhat longer bodies, through selective breeding more uniform blue but tend to not have as much red in the fins as the Rio Monga race. Over time lots of these have been breed to regular convicts by hobbyist so you dont know how pure they may be unless you buy them from a breeder who knows the origin of his stock. This race has been in the hobby for about 10-12 years, the Monga race was introduced by us in 2005. Ken
 
I got them from a cichlid specialist who I'm not really crazy about personally, but know that he REALLY knows his fish. Mine do have the pretty red on the fins for the males and some of the females get red bellies, and some don't (as BlueKiller82 mentioned). Like some others have said, I didn't personally go to exotic lands to collect them in the wild - but getting them from a specialized pro (and at $50 for the pair), they have about a 99.9% chance of being the real deal.
 
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