New blue carpentis help sexing?

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So just an update I’m leaning much more towards male now, I’ve noticed the fish mentioned above pairing up with another carpentis in the tank that appears to be an obvious female, there still young and I haven’t seen an egg tube or anything but They look to be a future pair
 
This must be a very low grade carpintis or it is still under 2 inches. With the scattered small spots ( almost looks like the original Texas cichlid spotting) I don't know of it's a carpintis unless you know exactly where you bought it from. Anyway it will be too young to tell especially when males and females have the black spotting at the top fins. May have to vent when at least 4 inches or larger.
 
maxstillen said:
This must be a very low grade carpintis or it is still under 2 inches. With the scattered small spots ( almost looks like the original Texas cichlid spotting) I don't know of it's a carpintis unless you know exactly where you bought it from. Anyway it will be too young to tell especially when males and females have the black spotting at the top fins. May have to vent when at least 4 inches or larger.
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About 3 inches right now, I went back to the store in the weekend to buy some food and ran into the person who sold me the fish, from what I was told they get from a local breeder, the father is apparently a blue carpentis and the mother was a Texas so that might explain it
 
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anzo1993 said:
About 3 inches right now, I went back to the store in the weekend to buy some food and ran into the person who sold me the fish, from what I was told they get from a local breeder, the father is apparently a blue carpentis and the mother was a Texas so that might explain it
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This is one of the problems with buying from LFSs, as opposed to well respected and legitimate breeders.
You end up with hybrids, brought in by local amateur breeders, that really don't know what they have bred.
Just because you buy something listed as this or that from a LFS doesn't mean that's what it is.
And it may not be malicious, or intentional. If a local breeder tells them its a carpintus, that may be what they think it is, but the realityis without tracing back to catch location such Lago Chairel of Escondido, it could be some aquarium strain Herichthys that has been crossed for generations.
Same ...if you walk in and see what's listed as Paratilapia bleakeri, or Vieja this or that, chances are barely 50% it is what its listed as, maybe less in these days of random amateurs crossing this with that, or the other, because they think its cool to create a hybrid mutt.
For those of us that want to maintain species legitimacy, its a nightmare.
 
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duanes said:
This is one of the problems with buying from LFSs, as opposed to well respected and legitimate breeders.
You end up with hybrids, brought in by local amateur breeders, that really don't know what they have bred.
Just because you buy something listed as this or that from a LFS doesn't mean that's what it is.
And it may not be malicious, or intentional. If a local breeder tells them its a carpintus, that may be what they think it is, but the realityis without tracing back to catch location such Lago Chairel of Escondido, it could be some aquarium strain Herichthys that has been crossed for generations.
Same ...if you walk in and see what's listed as Paratilapia bleakeri, or Vieja this or that, chances are barely 50% it is what its listed as, maybe less in these days of random amateurs crossing this with that, or the other, because they think its cool to create a hybrid mutt.
For those of us that want to maintain species legitimacy, its a nightmare.
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I completely agree, they LFS usually just take whatever they can get a good deal on themselves
 
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