Most Colourful SA/CA?

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Can't beat a nice pair of Red Terros if color is what you are going for. Greens, yellows, reds, blues, blacks, orange, everything. Red Tiger Motas are also quite striking.
 
dogofwar said:
Uh, no - H. carpintis x C. cyanoguttatus would be a hybrid.

The OP started the thread with an ornamental fish. Who knows what went into making a Red Spotted Severum. Is a genetically aberrant ornamental fish of one species any more or less natural than a cross of two closely related species? It's more than possible that multiple species of Heros were crossed to create the red spotted sev. But who knows...

Matt
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As far as I know there's only 2 Heros, Heros efasciatus and Heros severus and only efasciatus is a substrate spawner while severus is a mouthbrooder. The common Severum we see is esfasciatus and the red spot is not a hybrid between the two but a line bred version of the Gold strain. No different then how a Albino Tiger Oscar was essentially created. When you look up true hybrids you see they have no scientific name(Flowerhorns, Blood Parrots, Red Texas etc) while in the cichlid companions the Gold strain is identified as Heros efasciatus just like a Albino Tiger Oscar is identified as Astronotus ocellatus. Because in both instances the're just line bred versions of the original stain as you put it aberrations.

As for being more natural I'd say yes color morphs and line bred fish are more natural since hybrids tend to be infertile while line bred tend to be fertile. The more natural and easy breeding is for a fish the more natural the fish is in my opinion as it lends to them being viable in natural conditions. Plus we see color morphs in different localities, which means color morphs are natural occurring we just take a natural process one step further. I personally have no problem with hybrids but I love them for what they are just an example of a designer pet.
 
I'd have to say out of all the sa/ca these three fish I have now are definitely my favorites with color but almost any vieja usually has awesome color
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Isn't that a wild Oscar baby? I think I remember seeing that picture on another forum and I think thats what it was but I could be wrong.
 
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