Hi guys bought these two and was told the are both tilapia just different from each other but been looking up pictures and can't seem to properly I'd them 
I'd please
- Thread starter Fishweirdo
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They both do look like Tilapines. The first looks like the line-bred color version bred to have a pleasing color to dinners in US restaurants.
The 2nd looks like one the 100+ Tilapine species that look almost all exactly the same, so without provinance of location where its ancestors were caught, anybodies guess.
But niloticus is readily available in almost all restaurants, so a good possibility
below niloticus
zillii are also common, some with bars, some more pink
many are hybrids and blue, some high bodied some streamlined, the one below is almost 2ft long, and over a foot tall
there are also dwarf species like the bythobates below
and rift lake species like the tanganyikan below
The 2nd looks like one the 100+ Tilapine species that look almost all exactly the same, so without provinance of location where its ancestors were caught, anybodies guess.
But niloticus is readily available in almost all restaurants, so a good possibility
below niloticus
zillii are also common, some with bars, some more pink
many are hybrids and blue, some high bodied some streamlined, the one below is almost 2ft long, and over a foot tall
there are also dwarf species like the bythobates below
and rift lake species like the tanganyikan below
Thank you can't wait to see them get bigger and see how they turn out. They are both neat the pink one definitely tries and be the boss but my rtm+gt hybrids have that spot lock up for now lol