Viejas Synspilum color change...PICS!!

[KenyanSandBoa]

I originally asked this question in the thread below, but I don't want to derail it so I figured I would just start a new one.

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84811&page=3

My question:

Has anyone ever seen V. synspilum change to all orange like the pics below. These are my friends fish, and I believe his first syns, so he wasn't sure about the color change.

Any comments will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Modest_Man]

1) Are you sure the fish isn't a hybrid? There are a lot of Vieja type flowerhorns going around lately. Was the fish normal syn color at a young age?

2) If it is pure, chances are it morphed like many other Cenetral American cichlids do, like P. fenestratus, P. splendida, the red devil and midas complex, etc.

 

[KenyanSandBoa]

1) Are you sure the fish isn't a hybrid? There are a lot of Vieja type flowerhorns going around lately. Was the fish normal syn color at a young age?

2) If it is pure, chances are it morphed like many other Cenetral American cichlids do, like P. fenestratus, P. splendida, the red devil and midas complex, etc.

It had the normal coloration when he bought them and up to a few days ago and one day he went down to feed them and they were all orange. At first he didn't know what the heck he was looking at and he realized it was his syns.

 

[ewok]

it looks like a hybrid. i'm pretty sure there is no way a synspilum will change colors like that.
if anything they look like this guy here

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=85374

 

[ChiroHorn]

It looks like someone snuck in & swapped out his fish for some Midas.

 

[KenyanSandBoa]

it looks like a hybrid. i'm pretty sure there is no way a synspilum will change colors like that.
if anything they look like this guy here

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=85374

Yeah, they do look pretty similar to that guy.

So they could be Rose Queens??

 

[ewok]

i'm guessing those are hybrids. it's hard to tell when the fish are juveniles, but adults will reveal a lot more.
i'm pretty sure that synspilum will not have color morphs like that. it would be awesome, but unfortunately i doubt it. from the looks of the second picture it spawned as well.

 

[DasArab]

So whats the difference between rainbow Queens and rainbow kings. I have a RK thats very syn shaped and syn coloured. It is a hybrid of KKBP and Syn.

 

[ewok]

So whats the difference between rainbow Queens and rainbow kings. I have a RK thats very syn shaped and syn coloured. It is a hybrid of KKBP and Syn.

time to take that question to the hybrid forum.

 

[KenyanSandBoa]

i'm guessing those are hybrids. it's hard to tell when the fish are juveniles, but adults will reveal a lot more.
i'm pretty sure that synspilum will not have color morphs like that. it would be awesome, but unfortunately i doubt it. from the looks of the second picture it spawned as well.

Yeah, they've spawned. This will be their second attempt. The first time when there was fry, his pike cichlid pretty much cleaned out all of them.