ID Petsmart cichlid

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I bought one like that from petsmart. after a few weeks it lost its yellow turned like a grey brown and was super aggressive beating on fish 3x its size. Never got a positive ID lots of guesses though everything from red devil to Lyonsi.
 
Crazy mike said:
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That was my guess, but I am always keeping an eye out for gems, so I thought I'd get some other opinions. All their "Jack Dempseys" were also the same as this fish. There was a super cute red devil I was tempted to get as well, but since I don't actually have my giant tank yet, I don't trust a devil in one of my smaller grow out tanks. They normally at aggressive even when quite small, right?
 
I don't know if you can really see it in the pic, but the little RD already had the beginnings of a nuchal hump. Think it be worth getting him, or would he murder all my other fish between now and spring?
 
Quo Vadis said:
I don't know if you can really see it in the pic, but the little RD already had the beginnings of a nuchal hump. Think it be worth getting him, or would he murder all my other fish between now and spring?
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What else do you have in the tank and you can try just be prepared to move it if things turn ugly


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Well the little RD is about 2.5 inches. I have several growout tanks currently that are 75 and 90g tanks that he could potentially live in. When I get my 500g up a lot of the fish will be moved to that. The tank that I would likely put him in has a couple 7-8in Syns, a 7in Severum, some Oscars and GTs in the 3-4in range, a 4in Carpintus, a 3in Paratilapia, and a few 2-3 inch Thoricthys and Cryptoheros sp. He would be one of the smallest fish in the tank... Think I should risk it and pick him up? Do you think he is a nice RD/Midevil specimen?
 
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