Traded my pair of Red Texas Cichlids for....

[Ihsnshaik]

Red Texas cichlid is a relative term that's used when a Texas cichlid displays any sort of red coloring, there no real species name for Red Texas, just as Flowerhorns. Yes with Flowhorns there is the subclass given to them like Red Dragon, ZZ, Kamfa and so on... However there's people "attempting" to create their own "line" with new subclass name for a Flowerhorn that they are attempting to create by breeding with other species of fish with different Flowerhorn types.

Since I brought up breeding lets discuss it with Red Texas; When breeding lets say a male Red Texas cichlid with a female Green Texas cichlid, no matter how many times they've spawned there is always going to be some fry that do not appear as Red Texas cichlids however because the "father" was a Red Texas these fry are termed as Unfaded Red Texas Cichlids.

Even if you successfully breed male and female Red Texas Cichlids there's still fry that will not have the coloring red trait that the parents have. The same goes for Electric Blue Jack Dempsey such as "a" normal looking Jack that carries the blue gene when you breed it with another blue gene some of the fry with not have the blue gene look or trait.

So why is a Unfaded Red Texas called just that, no one knows except the person who decided to givei it the name of Unfaded Red Texas...

Nice explanation. Very informative and thanks for answering my question.

 

[xxUnRaTeDxxRkOxx]

Here's a couple pictures of the Festae Cichlids!!!!

Females

Male

 

[Tyler_Wentworth_150]

Red Texas cichlid is a relative term that's used when a Texas cichlid displays any sort of red coloring, there no real species name for Red Texas, just as Flowerhorns. Yes with Flowhorns there is the subclass given to them like Red Dragon, ZZ, Kamfa and so on... However there's people "attempting" to create their own "line" with new subclass name for a Flowerhorn that they are attempting to create by breeding with other species of fish with different Flowerhorn types.

Since I brought up breeding lets discuss it with Red Texas; When breeding lets say a male Red Texas cichlid with a female Green Texas cichlid, no matter how many times they've spawned there is always going to be some fry that do not appear as Red Texas cichlids however because the "father" was a Red Texas these fry are termed as Unfaded Red Texas Cichlids.

Even if you successfully breed male and female Red Texas Cichlids there's still fry that will not have the coloring red trait that the parents have. The same goes for Electric Blue Jack Dempsey such as "a" normal looking Jack that carries the blue gene when you breed it with another blue gene some of the fry with not have the blue gene look or trait.

So why is a Unfaded Red Texas called just that, no one knows except the person who decided to give it the name of Unfaded Red Texas...

Well said unrated, I've always sorta wondered if it was the same as ebjd in that sense. I appreciate the way you broke that down.

 

[xxUnRaTeDxxRkOxx]

Well said unrated, I've always sorta wondered if it was the same as ebjd in that sense. I appreciate the way you broke that down.

Well with the EBJD the blue coloration is a natural occurring phenomenon which actually occurs in the wild, I was just using the breeding as reference that you can still get fry with the original species coloration even when the parents are both different classifications or the same.

Here's something else for thought.... Did you know some cichlid species are able to change sexes? This is known as plastic sexing, and it can only occur when the fish is under 4" in size, and less than 1 year old and have never spawned, it's caused by the conditions around them such as Ph, temperature, male to female ratio, etc.... Convict cichlids are well known for this strange but true occurrence. Just like ALL saltwater Clown fish are born female, and the same goes for Midas cichlids which develops as a female by default but changes into a male during juvenile development based on its relative size to other juveniles in the brood.


You can read about it here - http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/51/5/410.full


George W. Barlow has written a book about it - The Wonderful World of Cichlids