I got my texas cichlid heres a pic...

[Loves severums]

thank u.

 

[ortiz_02]

nice fish, i caught 3 like that at a river called gila river here in arizona, this fish are beautiful and have such attitude, my eat just about anything that falls in the tank

 

[crisper]

nice pickup looks tex to me.

 

[CICHLID34]

thanks all

 

[FSM]

Actually think its a cyanoguttus (true texas), not a carpintis, due to the black markings running down the body.

Carptinis have black markings too.

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2962702&postcount=31

 

[BrAveHrT]

its a nice texas! btw cceb, whos that hot model in your avatar? shes smokin!

 

[Dominator]

looks carpintis, but very bad quality one. Good quality have bigger pearls, and has more pearls on the face and above the lips.

It could also be hybrid of texas and carpintis because it has combination of both big pearl and smaller pearls.

 

[Sarah88]

looks carpintis, but very bad quality one. Good quality have bigger pearls, and has more pearls on the face and above the lips.

different variants have different size/color pearls, has little to do with quality of fish, but OPs fish def looks like cyano due to the small separated pearling and pearling between the eyes, as it grows the pearls should get smaller, this looks just like the young cyanos i used to have

 

[bladesaber]

looks like a carpintis to me ...i have both ...

 

[Dominator]

looks like a carpintis to me ...i have both ...

+1 i kept all kinds of carpintis and texas. It is impossible for a real texas to have such big pearl on its face at that size.
If someone disagrees, post a picture of texas cyano at that size and prove it.