What is a Red Texas?

[Azedenkae]

Well I've actually always wondered this actually - how DO you define a red texas? Flowerhorns and blood parrots are relatively easy to describe, but what about red texans?

Are they simply a texas x any cichlid that is red? Or must there be special requirements for a fish to be called a red texas?

 

[Chrisplosion]

Typically it is considered a Red Texas when it is a faded or red colored Texas with pearling which can because achieved through crossing in Amphilophus, Parrot, or Flowerhorn. The name gets thrown around for F1 fry but I don't personally believe all fry to be considered Red Texas, only the apparent ones. You don't really start seeing Red Texas until you are a few generation in, rarely will you have anything that could be considered Red Texas in F1. Then you have the issue of unfaded ones which depends on who you ask, some will consider them Red Texas while other don't.

 

[Azedenkae]

Ah. Well it would seem that Red Texas is better described as a classification/state/morph of a texas cross then, eh?

 

[Chrisplosion]

More or less yeah

 

[Azedenkae]

Cool awesome. )

 

[FHlov]

Crossing any of the fish Chris mentioned with any specie of Herichthys is considered Red Texas. I don't consider them a red texas, unless they fade. Which they should once breed further down the line like Chris mentioned.

 

[FHlov]

okay before ppl get confused, Herichthys specie as in cyno and carpinte lol, not all.

 

[FishFreak95]

What about H. Sp "turqoise"?
they do have net pearling.

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[Azedenkae]

They're not texans. What FHlov means is that when he refers to Herichthys, he's just referring to texans.

 

[FishFreak95]

only cyano are texas. Carpintis doesn't occur in texas...


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