Red Texas or Flowerhorn?

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HybridFinatic said:
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.
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Right, I'm aware of Kamfa characteristics and ancestry. The 3 major categories of fh being zz, kamfa, and fader/golden. I was under the impression from breeder talks that eye color is more often than not a reliable indicator due to the way the assumed dominant & recessive eye color genes play out for red texas vs. fader fh... not 100% sure though as I've never bred red texas or faders before myself.
 
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Bassmaster360 said:
Right, I'm aware of Kamfa characteristics and ancestry. The 3 major categories of fh being zz, kamfa, and fader/golden. I was under the impression from breeder talks that eye color is more often than not a reliable indicator due to the way the assumed dominant & recessive eye color genes play out for red texas vs. fader fh... not 100% sure though as I've never bred red texas or faders before myself.
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Well if you think this is a red texas then it’s probably not very reliable. 1 thing alone never is especially with hybrids. A far more reliable way to ID is by experience seeing and differentiating the different types of hybrids and species for yourself over a long period of time and getting confirmation in your ID from other experienced individuals.
 
The fish in question is absolutely a GB Flowerhorn.
Just time and experiences in the hobby.
Just like a venting question. V or a U can be said but one needs to know how to tell a V or a U which depends on the person to know the difference; the tube is not written as a letter.
 
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Wow, gotcha, learned something new today. I've bred flowerhorn before, but never a GB or red texas. Cool, so sometimes red texas and GB are ALMOST indistinguishable.
 
Bassmaster360 said:
Wow, gotcha, learned something new today. I've bred flowerhorn before, but never a GB or red texas. Cool, so sometimes red texas and GB are ALMOST indistinguishable.
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No they are. Just know the subtle diffrences. Like one that knows will see this fish at first glance and know already. Structure, fins, face, pearls have subtle differences. But person outside the hobby will think they are same fish if put all together in a bag.
 
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the animal guy said:
No they are. Just know the subtle diffrences. Like one that knows will see this fish at first glance and know already. Structure, fins, face, pearls have subtle differences. But person outside the hobby will think they are same fish if put all together in a bag.
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Exactly
 
the animal guy said:
No they are. Just know the subtle diffrences. Like one that knows will see this fish at first glance and know already. Structure, fins, face, pearls have subtle differences. But person outside the hobby will think they are same fish if put all together in a bag.
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Even a person in the hobby like me. I don't think many people outside of the aquarium hobby knows or gives a damn about the differences between a flowerhorn and an arowana haha ?
 
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Bassmaster360 said:
Even a person in the hobby like me. I don't think many people outside of the aquarium hobby knows or gives a damn about the differences between a flowerhorn and an arowana haha ?
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Lol my husband has been calling ANY fish he sees that has vertical bars a convict for probably the better part of 15 years. At this point it's a running joke for us lol.

I'm not SUPER well versed in the ins and outs of all things FH, but I have spent a LOT of time looking at GB flowerhorns in the last two months and have SRTs growing out in my tanks, and my thought when I saw the pics was that this was a FH.
 
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