Texas breeding??......

[DCOWBOYS]

I originally had a 3"-4" Texas cichlid and bought a nice 8" Texas today,they hit it off right away,shoaling together etc.Now the smaller one has gotten black vertical lines going down half its body,it is shaking and quivering up against the bigger one wich is paying no attention to the smaller one.The smaller one has picked 3 or 4 different spots and has tried to clean them but ends up chasing the bigger texas cichlid,this is breeding rituals for these guys right??Any help is appreciated thanks,Nick.C.

 

[DCOWBOYS]

Here is a few pics,i am not sure wich is male/female if you can notice 1 has dark vertical lines on half its body.

 

[guyver]

Going black is breeding colours good luck

 

[Gasha]

Yo should drop some sort of plants in there... my texas loves to eat swords.. she shreds them to pieces!! Nice looking fish for sure!!

Good Luck!!

 

[Guapoako318]

Those texas look really nice. GL

ps i hate the cowboys

 

[VRWC]

Cant tell 100%, but the male looks like H. carpintis and female looks like H. cyanoguttatus.

 

[DCOWBOYS]

Cant tell 100%, but the male looks like H. carpintis and female looks like H. cyanoguttatus.

Thank you,but wich is wich??

 

[VRWC]

ahhh...I think the small one (cyanoguttatus) is the female and the large one (carpintis) male. Cant be 100% sure without some better shots, but Im about 95% sure. Looks like your smaller one has black in her dorsal which is a semi decent way of sexing them. Plus the bigger one, with his big forehead, has the profile of most every male Ive had.

The Texas cichlid (cyanoguttatus) is the only cichlid native to the USA. In Europe (and some LFS's in the USA) for some reason (marketing Id guess) the carpintis is called the green texas, blue texas and a few others, which is misleading and causes confusion too often when discussing the H. cyano/H. carpintis.

heres some good pics on a thread of the true texas..and I noticed Jason_S was on this thread too!

http://www.midwestcichlid.com/showthread.php?10717-Herichthys-Cyanoguttatus-VS.-Herichthys-Carpintis

 

[DCOWBOYS]

Thanks VRWC!!

 

[Sab_Fan]

big one does look like a cyano ... and the smaller one looks like a female, based on shape, and the dark blotch on the dorsal fin, which is supposed to be an indicator for females ...

these guys breed pretty readily IME, so you should have babies in no time ...