New Festae and Midas

[Frank Castle]

Just traded in my smaller male Dovii, 2 smaller Jaguars, and my 2 smallest Jack Dempseys and got these little gems....they were listed as "False Red Terror" but I noticed 3 of the 5 were peeling and 2 had a spot on the upper portion of the tail so the 1st thing I said was Festae and John, a former coworker and friend of mine confirmed it, and he also believed they were labeled incorrectly. $45 of trade-ins

Are these really Festae or do Midas have the same spotting on the upper portion of the tail?

 

[Frank Castle]

 

[newworld]

Not true or false red terrors....

 

[Frank Castle]

Not true or false red terrors....

no? Not Mayan or Festae? You think they are all Midas and 3 started peeling while the other 2 retained the barred variant?

 

[newworld]

Yes neither, as if they are Midas that's tricky unless from a trusted source...

 

[axs377]

If they weren't peeling like that, I'd say they looked liked tiny chanchosand. I'm guessing they are not festae, or at least not 100% pure festae.

 

[Covetous]

Frank, midevil can look super similar to Festae when they are young. My LFS has a batch of them that look identical to Festae, I'd be fooled if I didn't watch them get scooped out of the tank with their parents. The next batch was even worse because they where midas-mayan hybrids. :'(

 

[MP_cichlid]

Ya those are Midas or at least midevils. Not Festae, I agree they can loom similar when young tho. However no Festae here

 

[Athletic_Amph]

These are definitely not Festae, and are some sort of Amphilophus. Unfortunately, since they were labeled as festae/red terror/false red terror, and are clearly not Mayaheros Festae, it would be best to label them as "Midevils" due to the fact that they are more than likely a hybrid within the Amphilophus genus

ps-you're going to enjoy the peeling process, it's awesome to keep track of

 

[MP_cichlid]

Mesoheros**