In my experience (very limited, I'll admit) Escondidos are more blue than anything else. I got my Escondido from a very reputable LFS and it is crazy blue.
Texas cichlids
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Blue under fluoro lights or blue under natural sunlight or incandescent lighting? How much lighting power do you have? Carpintis will look bluish if you have a lot of lighting or are directly under the light. Once they aren't directly under the light, they will appear much more green. In natural sunlight, my 'escondido' glows like nuclear waste on the Simpsons (well not quite that fluoro green 
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No flash, proper white balance:
And with flash + directly under the tank lights:
).No flash, proper white balance:
And with flash + directly under the tank lights:
hmm mine look like yours Darth V under the lighting circumstances. Most likely mine are the fish farm in asia species LOL... But I really like these fish and I would recommend them.
MAN thats a beautiful fish. I like them more every time I see them. Going to my LFS this weekend so I'll definitely take another long look at these guys
Ok, here goes what it think about this great topic, Herichthys cyanoguttatus (Baird & Girard, 1854), comes from south Texas to the border line or division of states in Mexico, between Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas, exactly in the river call Conchos, from there, the next river is Magueyes and its just 5 kilometer far away, and then you can find carpintis, but according to a Mexican icthyologist, that fish is carpintis teporatus, and from there to the river Soto la Marina, you will find another morph call carpintis riverine, then you go to the state of San Luis Potosi, and in the town of Naranjos theres a river call El Salto, where you will find a beautiful carpintis, maybe another species, and finally from there to the south, you find the carpintis carpintis, of course it needs a lot of study and effort to do the revision of the gender, i hope this will help, greetings
a couples of months ago, but i will go in octuber, to search the riverine morph of carpintis, and see how far does it gets until it touch the sea, i will visit a place call La pesca.
