What am I????

[Skyeboy]

So i bought this labeled as a red texas. I bought it at about 2.5" or so and bought it bc of the aggression and personality it showed so small. It about 5" -6" now an d has crazy pearling. But the fins and body all have a dark red base. But it also has red eye and black tail circle like a red terror. I see texas for sure. Red? Hybrid?
This fish is crazy mean and will bite anything that hits the water including fingers.

 

[Skyeboy]

Also does it look male or female

 

[astrocreep]

Definitely some sorta Texas hybrid. Pretty damn badass as well. I'm not much on hybrids, but red texas stand out. They usually have the same shape as a normal texas just with the peeling red colors from the amphilophus genes.

I saw a cool video on Youtube yesterday of some convict/salvini hybrids that looked killer. Looked like salvinis but had convict banding on the back half of their body.

 

[Skyeboy]

Yea thats what i thought looks like a red texas with blue pearls

 

[astrocreep]

I'm gonna guess female but only because of the dark spot on dorsal fin. But being a hybrid it could have come from some other gene pool. Nice fish though.

Update us on growth and color fading.

 

[astrocreep]

Usually they breed a carpintis with a red devil then take that fry and cross it with a flowerhorn and then cross that back to somethin else, hell i dont know.

Its some sorta recipe like that.

It looks like a cyano pearling though....not a carpintis? Its more like individual spots than globs of pearling like a carpintis has.

The banding looks like a flowerhorn to me though, or something?

 

[Skyeboy]

I know a real hybrid lol. Im guessing red texas and flowerhorn...