Texas Cichlid

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mrwhite

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My Texas Chichlis is about 5 inches in length. I thought it was a male but it started to clear out an area inside one of my tree/cave type ornaments. It has taken out all the gravel inside down to the glass. I was wondering if I am right and this is now a female and she is preparing to spawn soon. I have several tank mates in there. No other texas though. It seems my mystery fish which I thought was a flowerhorn changed colors and looks like a red devil. I believe they are going to spawn based on their actions together. Can anybody help me out. Here is the texas.image (2).jpeg

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mrwhite said:
My Texas Chichlis is about 5 inches in length. I thought it was a male but it started to clear out an area inside one of my tree/cave type ornaments. It has taken out all the gravel inside down to the glass. I was wondering if I am right and this is now a female and she is preparing to spawn soon. I have several tank mates in there. No other texas though. It seems my mystery fish which I thought was a flowerhorn changed colors and looks like a red devil. I believe they are going to spawn based on their actions together. Can anybody help me out. Here is the texas.View attachment 863089
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I must say, that is an impressive looking fish.


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Hey mate, now that I've gotten home to take a better look, I'd say definite male. As for what it is (I know an ID is not what you're asking for, but hey), would seem like the Rio Salto or Lahilla variety of Green Texas. Most likely Rio Salto. Though nowadays who knows if the Green Texans (Herichthys carpintis) have some Texan (Herichthys cyanoguttatum) blood mixed in or not. Though doesn't really look like it has Texas blood.
 
the sex, I've seen some texas females that looked male. until they get to around the 7" mark it can be hard to tell. females have a dark patch in the dorsal, and yours looks like it COULD possibly have a dark patch, but that doesnt mean its a female For now I would say it is a male but I wouldn't be surprised if it turned female. either way its a really beautiful fish.

Judging by the green on the face I'm going to assume this shine is on the whole body, a cyano wouldn't show the green so thats a pretty solid way other than morphology to ID the two.
Can I add though that your fish doesn't really look like either, it looks like a combination and it could well be, but judging by the fact that the cyano's i've kept showed no green colouration.

I'm actually pretty confused it's either a cyano that looks kinda like a carpintis, or a carpintis that looks kinda like a cyano...
 
I lean towards your fish being a male...i have a male and had a female..and when i had them both the female was for short time about the same size but a visible difference were the pointy fins such as the dorsal fin on yours...and of course the genital tube which is thin and pointy on the male and was noticable.....as far as pure cyanos go i like to go on fishing websites for reference although aquarium and wild specimens differ...cyanos go by the name Rio grande perch or Rio grande cichlid..look them up and see the differance....
 
I lean towards your fish being a male...i have a male and had a female..and when i had them both the female was for short time about the same size but a visible difference were the pointy fins such as the dorsal fin on yours...and of course the genital tube which is thin and pointy on the male and was noticable.....as far as pure cyanos go i like to go on fishing websites for reference although aquarium and wild specimens differ...among fisherman cyanos go by the name Rio grande perch or Rio grande cichlid..look them up and see the differance....
 
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