Is It Fading

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I honestly think this fish has amphilophus lyonsi in it's blood. Especially after looking at the colors before it faded. It's definitely not completely Lyonsi, but the yellows and the super red fins look exactly like it and the way it changed in pattern resembles that of a Lyonsi.
 
Very interesting fading..... proves that fading isn't very predictable and does not happen at the same size for every fish..... in your case it started quite late. But it's turning out to be such a good looking specimen!
Here's one of the offsprings of my fader couple which somewhat looks like yours before fading.... Hope it gets transformed like yours did.

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