Was offered this little baby

[Miguel]

Told it is the offspring of a Carpintis male and Blood Parrot female one of the fertile ones in these here part )
Now, for you experts, is this, possibly, a so called Red Texas?


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[strollo22]

It looks like it. May need to grow a little bit and color up before you know for sure.

 

[Riftraft]

It looks like it. May need to grow a little bit and color up before you know for sure.

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[Azedenkae]

At this point it just looks like a 'Green Texas x Blood Parrot' to me, no signs of it being a Red Texas yet. But who knows, may blossom into a Red Texas one day.

 

[Riftraft]

At this point it just looks like a 'Green Texas x Blood Parrot' to me, no signs of it being a Red Texas yet. But who knows, may blossom into a Red Texas one day.

That's what a red texas is. It will just be an unfaded RT most likely. Still can turn out to be good looking fish, just not that bright red coloring that SRT have.


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[Azedenkae]

That's what a red texas is. It will just be an unfaded RT most likely. Still can turn out to be good looking fish, just not that bright red coloring that SRT have.


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I regard 'Red Texas' as a trait, rather than a strain of fish. If a fish is red and has pearlings, and is in the shape of a texas/green texas, then I call it a 'Red Texas'. Otherwise, it's just whatever cross it is. Imo.

 

[Microfische]

I regard 'Red Texas' as a trait, rather than a strain of fish. If a fish is red and has pearlings, and is in the shape of a texas/green texas, then I call it a 'Red Texas'. Otherwise, it's just whatever cross it is. Imo.

If going by that logic any strain name is irrelevant as long as the fish looks similar to something else, you wouldn't call a low quality zz a trimac would you? Would you call this a red Texas? :

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[Source310]

I'd Consider That Fish A Monster Kamfa That Could Be A Father Of An RT


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[Microfische]

Wrong image here's one :



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[Azedenkae]

That one has a nuchal hump. >.o Doesn't look 'texas', which was one of the things I mentioned.

Though I guess I should be more specific.

"If a fish is a H. cyanoguttatum/carpintis hybrid is red and has pearlings, and is in the shape of a H. cyanoguttatum/carpintis, then I call it a 'Red Texas'."

Imo, one can have grades of 'red texas', but with the number of homemade red texans out there, I reckon personally that it'd be bad to call every attempt at producing a red texas, well, 'red texans'. Call the ones that don't have a chance exactly what the cross is, so that when it's passed on (because they will be, not everyone cull all their fish, and plus some can be nice - just not 'red texany') people don't get the idea of using them to breed red texas. Only call the ones that fit the bill (red, pearlings, texan shape, descendant of Cyano/Carp) Red Texas and tada, we'll move towards getting more of these guys more often.