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Acestro;3356119; said:
...and those have clearly small and round 'spots', even on the operculum. The original fish here does not.
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the shape of the spots means nothing.. Look at the base colors, and spot colors..
 
Acestro;3356119; said:
...and those have clearly small and round 'spots', even on the operculum. The original fish here does not.
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I agree thats what i was looking at but the first pic shows green or bluish green id say carpintus in that shot. But the second and third definitely dont highlight the color of the fish really and looks like cynogat color wise . But the pattern of spots is way different is this how to differentiate ? Thats what my book points out as species variants.
 
sick_lid;3356184; said:
the shape of the spots means nothing.. Look at the base colors, and spot colors..
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You are totally wrong, the base color does'nt matter, the spots or (pearls) mean everything, the fish in the original Pic is a CyanoXCarpintas Hybrid. I am willing to bet $100. I live in Texas and the Cyano has very small dot like pearls you will never see a wild Cyano with large pearls even a CyanoXCarpinte hybrid will not survive the winter here, I have tried it!
 
sick_lid;3356184; said:
the shape of the spots means nothing.. Look at the base colors, and spot colors..
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according to what source? I haven't seen base color used before as a character used to distinguish them (color has, but those pictures you posted had a VERY light color compared to carpintis).

Sources I know (Artigas-Azas) say the shape and size is relevant.
 
wiseman82;3356212; said:
You are totally wrong, the base color does'nt matter, the spots or (pearls) mean everything, the fish in the original Pic is a CyanoXCarpintas Hybrid. I am willing to bet $100. I live in Texas and the Cyano has very small dot like pearls you will never see a wild Cyano with large pearls even a CyanoXCarpinte hybrid will not survive the winter here, I have tried it!
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That is VERY interesting information. I've always wondered if they had different cold-tolerance levels!
 
wiseman82;3356212;3356212 said:
You are totally wrong, the base color does'nt matter, the spots or (pearls) mean everything, the fish in the original Pic is a CyanoXCarpintas Hybrid. I am willing to bet $100. I live in Texas and the Cyano has very small dot like pearls you will never see a wild Cyano with large pearls even a CyanoXCarpinte hybrid will not survive the winter here, I have tried it!
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:iagree: the markings on those fish look nothing alike. so were supposed to use only color alone to differentiate the two? thats a load of BS if i ever heard one. who knows what kinda of lighting or camera was used to take pics. heres my carpintis. sure, his color is different but thats due to the lighting camera. look at his markings. looks more like the OPs than the ones you posted

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jcardona1;3356232; said:
:iagree: the markings on those fish look nothing alike. so were supposed to use only color alone to differentiate the two? thats a load of BS if i ever heard one. who knows what kinda of lighting or camera was used to take pics. heres my carpintis. sure, his color is different but thats due to the lighting camera. look at his markings. looks more like the OPs than the ones you posted

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You can honestly say that your carpintis looks more like the op's fish than the cyano pictures I posted? The only similarity I see with yours are the sizes of the spots.. I'm interested in seeing pictures of your fish with different lighting too..

And also with the green and blue texas names; I see a lot of those colors in the op's fish........
 
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