Photos of my fish ... ID help please

[AquaDan]

Hello all. Wanted to share a few recent photos of some of my fish. If possible id like to know what kind of Severum this is and if my jd is male or female. The Severum is very colorful with lots of blue and red however when im near the tank or taking photos its color fades usually reappears when eating of flaring at other fish??

 

[Passionate 4 pikes]

First is a rare hypselacara coryphainoides.
second is a very nice jack dempsey,
third is a large texas cichlid
fourth looks like a heros efasciatus
and fifth is a blood parot hybrid.

 

[AquaDan]

Mhm Thanks for that. Actually I was hoping for as I stated the first time if someone could please tell me what kind of Severum I have and If the Dempsey in the photos is male or female. The two convicts are different fish really cant tell from the angle but both are from the same batch of fry i raised. The first was one of 4 with the abnormal head and the second was regular but very chunky. Both came from Normal pink cons. Thank you for replying.

 

[Passionate 4 pikes]

Mhm Thanks for that. Actually I was hoping for as I stated the first time if someone could please tell me what kind of Severum I have and If the Dempsey in the photos is male or female. The two convicts are different fish really cant tell from the angle but both are from the same batch of fry i raised. The first was one of 4 with the abnormal head and the second was regular but very chunky. Both came from Normal pink cons. Thank you for replying.

Oh i am so sorry!!! thats what i get for skimming i read the title and told you the names of the fish ok that heros look like efasciatus and the dempsey has male written all over it. those are wierd cons!!! they look so much like BPs!!
very nice collection.

 

[AquaDan]

Thank you for replying I hope my previous reply didnt come off as rude. I googled the name Heros Efasciatus and most pages i looked at showed several varieties of severums under that name. I was wondering when i bought him a few months ago they had one identical about 6" a little more colored for $125 a few tanks over. And I questioned about this one in a tank by itself and the worker was unsure of what it was and said i could have it for $5. Perhaps theres a bit of BP in one of the parents.

 

[Cichlaholics Anonymous]

the dempsey is definitely male

 

[woofy]

i agree on the above the jd is male. do u have more colorful pics of the severum , so they arent so dim to see some colors. also isnt the fish in the net and ruler a blood parrot, it looks like a jelly bean that just faded away from its dye or a blood parrot that is just white.

 

[Johny]

nice cichlids!

 

[Fry]

I agree that the JD is male and we do need better pics of the severum. Shine some light on it!

 

[AquaDan]

Hope these help a bit Its hard to get a shot of him colored up as he stresses when im near the tank. The convict measured was a normal con one i raised from the same batch of fry as the one with the abnormal face.

Also a few photos of my second smaller dempsey .... also Male?