I.D this fish please

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Azedenkae said:
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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That is where we can disagree because i do not see a pure looking green texas in the pics. What is it i see that is off well a fully colored out tail and fins on a fish this young (at least usually)including a red edge to the top fin (pure green texas or any texas does not have a red edge on their fins but many flowerhorns do) most easily seen in the second pic. Also this is still a small juvi fish and as it grows could still fade. Also petsmart gets their fish from segrest farms and they do not according to an answered email from segrest have green texas (Herichthys carpintis) and petsmart does not take in donation fish. While this all does not mean it is not a green texas I feel it makes it very unlikely that it is.

It is still a very nice fish and one many of us would not think twice about adding to our tanks.
 
onefowl1 said:
That is where we can disagree because i do not see a pure looking green texas in the pics. What is it i see that is off well a fully colored out tail and fins on a fish this young (at least usually)including a red edge to the top fin (pure green texas or any texas does not have a red edge on their fins but many flowerhorns do) most easily seen in the second pic. Also this is still a small juvi fish and as it grows could still fade. Also petsmart gets their fish from segrest farms and they do not according to an answered email from segrest have green texas (Herichthys carpintis) and petsmart does not take in donation fish. While this all does not mean it is not a green texas I feel it makes it very unlikely that it is.

It is still a very nice fish and one many of us would not think twice about adding to our tanks.
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It's not uncommon for Green Texans to have such coloration on its fins, especially given the color it exhibits on its body. Red lining on fins is not rare either. It isn't uncommon to find in most species I find, be it Texans or Jack Dempseys or umbees.
 
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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Right now in my area they seem to sell the red texas which is more of a low grade flowerhorn/hybrid like you said. I have seen both h. caprinits and h. cyano (actually bought one a h. cyano long time ago from Petsmart). The Petsmart near me doesn't have any CA/SA cichlids other than blood parrots. I asked why and they said they aren't getting anymore CA/SA cichlids. They did have a ton of Africans though. Even a LFS that I usually go to buy rare fish only has 47 or less CA/SA cichlids and 194 African sp. My guess is that African cichlids are more popular since most don't get big and are very colorful.
 
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