Is it a real convict???

[PGJE]

I got two convict cichlids a few days ago and I heard that they lose their stripes when they are stressed, which is what the female does (but she mainly has the stripes, just loses them if you first walk into the room), but the male never has stripes, and he has a slightly red tail. Is he sick? He is always harassing the female.

The pictures below are of the male. I was wondering if he was a different cichlid or something like that...

 

[Boomer1224]

looks like a convict to me

 

[duanes]

The "convict" as an aquarium fish name, may be the result of decades of hybridization between a number of similar species, because lately have scientists have noted the differences between populations that actually are separate species that may have been lumped together as convicts.For many years species like A kanna, honduran red points, and chetumalensus may have all thought to be nigrofasciatum (the original name for convicts), but were/may have been mistaken but were actually separate species. So what is, or is there a real convict?
Or is it just a catchall name for a very hybridized aquarium group?
At 1st your pics looked to me, a bit like Honduran Red Points, so below are some HRPs I kept

female above male below

Now here are your pics, expanded a bit to helps, although the expanding, washed out detail

 

[PGJE]

yeah i think your right, the female looks EXACTLY like the female you pictured, and them male, as you can tell, similar.

 

[8DiagramPoleFighter]

From my research, it is believed that the original “convicts” were nigrofasciatus. The convict wasn’t believed to be a hybrid of the other species. Today, who really knows because the water has been muddied. Your fish could be a stressed nigrofasciatus or a different species but looking at a pic will not give a definite answer. If I had to guess, I would say that you have a nigrofasciatus. Domestic strains vary imo due the inbreeding.