Is this a fake?

[FishFreak95]

http://i495.photobucket.com/albums/rr311/star-and-two-comets/tff pics/054.jpg

I heard this is a severum convict hybrid. I am very skeptical about this. I doubt it because I have always heard severums cannot hybridize with CA cichlids and I firmly believed in it. maybe some 1 in a million thing?

 

[Runitis]

wikipedia says that a severum can breed with convicts but who knows with wikipedia

 

[Kaliedoscope]

i have had this fish for years, he was sold to me as a severum convict hybrid. he is the only surviving member of a large group of fry that I purchased a long time ago. They all had convict colours but the tail bar and body shape of severums. I belive that convicts can hybridize with severums but I believe the jury is still out on this one

 

[Kaliedoscope]

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?350778-Severum-Hybrids&highlight=


heres the post that i origionally posted it on. I got a ton of bs calls and nonsense answers but no real feedback... but theres more pics on there if youre interested.

 

[Kaliedoscope]

but just for the record i do think that is a severum convict hybrid

 

[tiddlywinks]

they look like convicts too me. convicts have tons of mutations due to over breeding and breeding with ther siblings/parents.

 

[Lusus_Naturae]

Posting the photo before someone erases it on photobucket.... Nice looking fish, not sure what it is though...

http://i495.photobucket.com/albums/rr311/star-and-two-comets/tff pics/054.jpg

I heard this is a severum convict hybrid. I am very skeptical about this. I doubt it because I have always heard severums cannot hybridize with CA cichlids and I firmly believed in it. maybe some 1 in a million thing?

 

[baxtor_lex]

it looks like maybe a urau cross?

 

[FishFreak95]

Here a link to the supposed "sevicts"
http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/343779-my-sevict-or-converum/

Your thoughts?

 

[Kaliedoscope]

YEah this is what all the siblings of mine looked like. They never have severum colours, just convict colours with a taller more severum body shape and they ALWAYS have the severum tail-bar