Selling FH as Trimacs?

[Mad About Cichlids]

What do you'll think? To me fish in picture has too blues/pearls on it's side to be Trimac.


http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/auction.cgi?fwcichlidc&1218471530

 

[rallysman]

Not a trimac.

 

[Mad About Cichlids]

I emailed seller pointing that out, we'll see what kind of response I'll get.

 

[tydus]

FH all the way. I was eyeballing those too.

 

[Cichlaholics Anonymous]

that is some irresponsible behavior selling off low grade FH's as trimacs

 

[cichlidinsomniac]

What do you'll think? To me fish in picture has too blues/pearls on it's side to be Trimac.


http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/auction.cgi?fwcichlidc&1218471530

i noticed that too

 

[japes]

Hooray for irresponsible Hybrid keeping.

 

[TheOscarGuy]

What do you'll think? To me fish in picture has too blues/pearls on it's side to be Trimac.
http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/auction.cgi?fwcichlidc&1218471530

Can not be 100% sure either way - the fish is too small, and looks stressed (e.g., darkened stripes), which creates further problems.

I generally agree that claiming a fish is Trimac, when its a hybrid is rampant and is obviously very bad for the hobby.

 

[Mad About Cichlids]

I'm just hoping some poor soul that is looking to get Trimacs don't end up with FHs instead.

 

[lostnight]

It looks like a hybrid to me. I remember back this past winter when some people bought some trimacs from my favorite cichlid vender, TUIC, and they turned out to be FHs. I felt bad, but I posted that I would not buy anymore Trimacs from there if that's what he was selling as Trimacs. It turns out, TUIC got burned by getting Flowerhorns from another source at a young age. So Jeff Rapps from TUIC started selling true Trimacs from his personal breeding stock. I was curious to see how they turned out, and got two very little ones in late June. At no time did they look like those posted on that aquabid link. I took a pic of one today;