Please help me ID this fish...
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Low grade Texas mix, a lot of weird looking fish have been coming from the Red Texas bin recently. They used to be mostly Kamfa Flowerhorn and then they started selling low grade Red Texas but now I have no clue what they are selling.
No its not a festae, and Chris is wrong too.
It's a young Mayan Cichlid, Amphilophus Urophthalmus. Young ones have a nice blueish sheen to their sides, red fins and a tan orange coloured body. when they are stressed the bars will go dark, when chilled they will be a light grey/blue colour. they are much less aggressive than true festae. The individual I owned was very aggressive but they are good mixers.
Not sure why everyone jumps on the "hybrid" bandwagon, even a mod. I'm surprised how often this fish gets misidentified
It's a young Mayan Cichlid, Amphilophus Urophthalmus. Young ones have a nice blueish sheen to their sides, red fins and a tan orange coloured body. when they are stressed the bars will go dark, when chilled they will be a light grey/blue colour. they are much less aggressive than true festae. The individual I owned was very aggressive but they are good mixers.
Not sure why everyone jumps on the "hybrid" bandwagon, even a mod. I'm surprised how often this fish gets misidentified
Its faded but its there, I wouldn't be so sure if I was mistaken. I have kept this fish and helped people ID them over 50 times on various forums. So yeah... its a mayan
Segrest Farms (Petsmart's supplier) does not get in Mayan Cichlids and sell them as Red Texas. This is also not a case of wrong fish in the wrong bin. That fish is clearly not a Mayan and clearly is not from a pure species of fish. This HYBRID is a Texas mix of some kind but it does not qualify as Red Teaxs. Segrests gets in a random assortment hybrids, Flowerhorn mixes for the most part, and sells them as Red Texas. Recently some of what they have been selling seem more like complete bottom of the barrel crap that the supplier sends them. I'm not sure who is supplying Segrest but they are getting cheated. I have been seeing these for over a year now, I know at least for the most part what I am talking about. You sir are jumping on the Festae/Mayan bandwagon because you can't tell the difference.
I have had a couple that look very similar to this one http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/f...rhorn-Thread&p=5712609&viewfull=1#post5712609
Its not a mayan.
An in tank shot would let us see more features that would id this better.
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An in tank shot would let us see more features that would id this better.
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+1. I don't see no Mayan. Looks like a low grade red Texas
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