I.D this fish please

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I saw this fish at Petsmart when i was buying food. None of the employees were sure of what it was. so if you could please I.D. it so i could start researching more about it. thanks20140310_202307.jpg20140310_202256.jpg20140310_202306.jpg i tried to get better pictures but he kept moving. If ive seen this fish its not in a color i recognize

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definitely the body shape is texas coloring throws it off a little. Crazy mike is right it could be a texas hybrid . Very nice little one at that .
 
How come I'm not surprised Petsmart employees didn't know what it was lol. My guess is h. caprintis aka the green texas as most call it.
 
cichlidfish said:
How come I'm not surprised Petsmart employees didn't know what it was lol. My guess is h. caprintis aka the green texas as most call it.
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as far as chain pet stores go petsmart is actually pretty good in my opinion. and considering it might be a mix the fact the employees don't know what it is isn't that suppressing and could happen at any store. not trying to hate but...
 
with that being said the ones you have been to and i have been to are most likely very different
and I do think it is probably a mix or just a really rare as rare fish some times end up in stores like petsmart.
 
Being it is from petsmart and the chain sells red texas made from texas x flowerhorn matings my guess is one of these hybrids that leans towards looking like green texas. It is just like the many sold as red texas that favor or look more like flowerhorn. In any given first generation cross some look like one parent and some look like the other parent with a few looking somewhere between both parents. Also knowing the supplier of petsmart one can look on their list and see if they even offer pure green texas right now or just the red texas. I did look and they do not list Herichthys carpintis but do list both red texas and Herichthys cyanoguttatus.
 
onefowl1 said:
Being it is from petsmart and the chain sells red texas made from texas x flowerhorn matings my guess is one of these hybrids that leans towards looking like green texas. It is just like the many sold as red texas that favor or look more like flowerhorn. In any given first generation cross some look like one parent and some look like the other parent with a few looking somewhere between both parents. Also knowing the supplier of petsmart one can look on their list and see if they even offer pure green texas right now or just the red texas. I did look and they do not list Herichthys carpintis but do list both red texas and Herichthys cyanoguttatus.
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I beg to differ, whilst there are a lot of variation in the F1 generation, the dominant traits will show, and therefore it is more likely that although there will be individuals that looks similar to a parent, it will never be the same. In general anyways, of course there are exceptions but with the Red Texans, it's quite obvious when their color is a bit off or whatever.

Maybe down the line, but that's really only if they are continuously breed with one species. To get a hybrid to look like a Green Texas, I'd imagine that it'd be a few generations down the line, assuming practically everytime the one that looks most similar to a Green Texas is well, breed with a Green Texas. So honestly, I see no reason to doubt that the Green Texas shown is pure.

From my experience anyways.
 
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