No stripes?

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So my friend took this picture at the Berlin Aquarium.

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Awesome tank and cichla, but what caught my eye was in the bottom left corner...

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Could that really be a cichla with no stripes OR spangles? I originally thought it was a xingu because of the lack of stripes, but it also looks like has blue on the dorsal. Possibly a xingu/azul hybrid?
 
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Yep, looks like a xingu to me too.
 
heretix said:
So my friend took this picture at the Berlin Aquarium.

chEQqBV.jpg


Awesome tank and cichla, but what caught my eye was in the bottom left corner...

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Could that really be a cichla with no stripes OR spangles? I originally thought it was a xingu because of the lack of stripes, but it also looks like has blue on the dorsal. Possibly a xingu/azul hybrid?
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Sorry not too knowledgeable about cichla. Buy this setup is amazing
 
heretix said:
is it pretty common for xingu to have almost no black markings? All the one's I've seen have the horizontal black line of spots.
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There's a lot of variance in the patterns and color of cichla melaniae....I've seen plenty with light markings, plenty with heavy markings. Check out some of kendragon's old threads, he had 8+ in one tank and there were plenty of differences between them and they were all from the same parents.

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/allure-of-xingu.563725/
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/my-xingu-tank.546454/
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/melaniae-xingu-weekend-photo-dump.537649/
 
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