Please I.D. These pick ups

[Chrisplosion]

SA cichlids do not readily cross breed if they cross breed at all. To my knowledge there are no cases of festae crossing with anything in an aquarium. So the likely hood that this store bred a dovii and a festae are as close to 0% as you can get. Add in that these fry that are claimed to be crosses look exactly like young mayans and I think you already have your answer.

If they are crosses it is more likely a mayan x dovii cross. That could be possible, however they look like mayans to me.

This is incorrect, Festae has successfully crossed many times in the past with Central American Cichlids. Not nearly as common as it is with Central American but it does happen. It could be safely assumed that Festae is capable of crossing with most, if not all, Central American Cichlids. While Festae is found in South America, it is more or less a Central American.

 

[Loshmitchell101]

Well overall thank you everyone for your responses. No matter what these are im keeping them I hope these to be hybrids. If not oh well, ill keep up with updates.

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[Thelatinofishlover]

i would would say its mayanXdovii the reason i dont say festae is because of the caudal eye spot tend to be bigger in mayan than festae

 

[Loshmitchell101]

Does anyone know about pics of a doviixmayan? Just curious, I had a mayan years ago who was mean as hell.

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