ID carpinte please

[HrHagel]

Well, atleast i've never seen a cyano being as blue as a ebjd, and as bright..

But, there was distinct differences from the fish in the same tank, you could see it just by looking at the tank, and as usual the sales dude was clueless, which leads me to believe the tank has been mixed
with carpinte, cyano etc, by a clueless guy working there, not being able to tell the difference in the first place.. *shrugs*

Oh, to answer your question, first off because i know they only keep f0 and f1 in the store, when it comes to SA/CA cichlids, and i know it's an escondido, cause when you see it in person, you can clearly tell how much more bright and how deeper the color is in the fish, exactly like a escondido.
Obviously, i can't be POSITIVE from this, my mistake for a bad choice of words.

 

[young_rico]

what i was trying to say is that you cant tell if the fish a F0, F1, or F999999 just by looking at it. they do look like carpintis to me but the truth is that you will never know what they really are because you dont know the source. they still look like nice specimens. good luck

 

[HrHagel]

Thanks

 

[crenipterus svenagalus]

I don't think the OP was trying to figure out what generation of offspring he has, but the geological variant. I see a Cyannogutus and a Carpintis. Carpintis on the left.

 

[VRWC]

The pearling on the fish on the right is about 5x bigger than the pearling on a Cyanoguttatus.

Below is his fish, a texas and a low grade red texas. In his fish, I see almost zero resemblance to a cyano.

 

[calicichlid]

Due to the zoom/quality of the pic it easy tell it is not the The True Texas, but it is somewhat of a guess on what varient of carpintis it may be. I just picked up a few Chairel myself and looked really close thinking 2 may have been Lahillas. After a few weeks they have colored and it almost seem that the missing spot reappeared and filled in color wise. BTW nice carpintis VRWC.

 

[calicichlid]

The pearling on the fish on the right is about 5x bigger than the pearling on a Cyanoguttatus.

Below is his fish, a texas and a low grade red texas. In his fish, I see almost zero resemblance to a cyano.

aggreed.....

 

[hailmike]

i'm going to stick to my guns and say cyano or cyano x carpintis mix.

 

[HrHagel]

Btw the male is 4,5" and the female 4"

 

[Dominator]

With all respect Balton, sorry that is incorrect but Dominator has nailed it correctly.

because i kept all of them, thanks.
Lahillas has smaller pearls with more space in between the pearls, also blue color chain. cyano does not have that big pearls at this size. In addition, that doesn't look like hybrid at all, the body color is just too normal. It can't be cyano either, cyano does not have blue chain.