true red terrors or not

[cornbread_5]

ok I picked up six true red terrors or thats what i thought cuz i had a false red terror and they where lighter then him and looked different but now they changed color and are started to look like false red terrors or mayan cichlids which they are called. so does any one have pics of juvenile true red terrors about 2 inches or so , so i can compare to mine .

 

[cookiemonster]

I don't have pictures, but true festae will have a "Y" shape made by the first two bars on the fish. This is not present on Cichlasoma uropthalamus, the Mayan cichlid.

 

[Mystix212]

Post pics of the fish.

 

[proaquatics]

pics pics pics

 

[bolty]

TRUE RED TERROR at 1inch

TRUE RED TERROR at 4inch

TRUE RED TERROR at 13inch

 

[LemonHead]

pics, they do wonders.

 

[thefishguy7]

Mayans "tail spot" will be more than 1/2 the width of the tail, festaes will be less than half.

 

[mbunafishkeeper]

my 2" festae.

 

[John Rambo]

that "y" can be hard to find if the stripes are faded, but the spot doesnt lie

 

[mbunafishkeeper]

that "y" can be hard to find if the stripes are faded, but the spot doesnt lie

yeh the occeli is always there so there easy to tell apart, mayan occeli covers a lot of the tail arm where as festae cover's about half and its in the top half not the bottom