Texas or Hybrid rubbish?????

[Jimmy Side eye]

I've been offered this breeding pair of Texas cichlids.
Male 10" Female 6"+
They have a strange profile which leads me to believe they may be hybrids.
Can anyone confirm either way?????

The pair.

The female

 

[japes]

The Female does seem to have a weird shape, particularly around the eyes/gills, but has normal Texas colouration, including the breeding dress.

Male, well. That looks like it's got some Bocourti or maybe even Paratheraps/Vieja in it, certainly doesn't look pure to me. You may even find that the Female is the result of that Male crossing with a Pure Female Texas, but I can't say I'm really up on this sort of thing as my mindset is much the same as yours, hybrid = rubbish.

 

[oscardelahoya93]

I've been offered this breeding pair of Texas cichlids.
Male 10" Female 6"+
They have a strange profile which leads me to believe they may be hybrids.
Can anyone confirm either way?????

The pair.

The female

Those are huge you must take good care of them nice coloration too.

 

[citrinelum]

i think theire hibrids as allot of species now are bieng bred in captivity, anyway the seem a cross between hericthys cyanogutatus and carpintis...

nice pair!!!

 

[killerfish]

the male is a hybrid for sure not sure about the female could just be slightly deformed or just have poor genetics they still look good however

 

[Jason_S]

i don't know guys...i'm not seeing anything about either one that just screams out hybrid...unless they're hybrid between the 2 texas species (cyanoguttatus and carpintis) which is a distinct possibility, especially if they came from an lfs. texas cichlids unfortunately suffer the same fate as midas/red devils in that they're often crossed with each other by farms that either don't know or don't care that there's a difference between the 2.

the female does look a bit deformed...particularly the way the mouth slopes up to the dorsal fin...that little indention or whatever you want to call it isn't normal for a texas.

as for the male, I don't see anything vieja/paratheraps/bocourti about it. like I said, could definitely be cyanoguttatus/carpintis cross but I don't really see anything else in there.

 

[balton777]

I've been offered this breeding pair of Texas cichlids.
Male 10" Female 6"+
They have a strange profile which leads me to believe they may be hybrids.
Can anyone confirm either way?????

If it were me, I would pass on that pair.

 

[twhittle]

Not hybrid looking to me

 

[scubasteve06]

The female looks almost like 3 out of the two batches of convictxtexas fry I kept. Much bigger though.

 

[Decoder]

The male looks very odd to me.