Red Texas or Flowerhorn?
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I'd bet money on Red Texas. That eye isn't red. White, yellow, and orange eyes are almost always Red Texas lacking Trimac in their ancestry.
Depending on which circles you're talking to, you could argue a Red Texas IS a Flowerhorn. Purists (if there is such a thing for hybrid fish) may say no.
Depending on which circles you're talking to, you could argue a Red Texas IS a Flowerhorn. Purists (if there is such a thing for hybrid fish) may say no.
Beautiful Red Texas specimen though. I don't see
I'm curious, why do you think so?
I bought as a small red texas at about 2”....as it has grown the body shape has changed and it has grown those fin trailers.... that was making me wonder.
I've seen lots flowerhorn. I've seen lots of red texas. I've seen many Red texas flowerhorn hybrids. I can tell them apart pretty well. This is a GB fader flowerhorn.
Also your only saying this a red texas based off this " That eye isn't red. White, yellow, and orange eyes are almost always Red Texas lacking Trimac in their ancestry" and that is false. A good portion of all the flowerhorn in the market have white, yellow, orange eyes. Those are called kamfa. And they get it from more vieja genetics. But in this case this flowerhorn is not a kamfa. It is an SRD/zz that had a fader gene. It faded and it is now considered what we call a Goldenbase. I would say it's eyes are red. A slightly lighter red maybe a blood orange but not the eye color of kamfa from vieja genes. Red texas also carry vieja genes from blood parrot which is why they also can have white, yellow, orange eyes so I wouldn't bet on it being red texas just based off the eye color. Also Kamfa w/ fader gene exist so even if the eyes actually were white or yellow or a more orange orange you can't ID just off that.
Looks like a male Red Texas to me. Here is a pic of a male unfaded Red Texas I once kept. Very similar shaped body.