Which Tilapia guys? Help! :)

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There is nothing of the natural colour left. This plus the young age makes it impossible to know which species this is or which were part in the making.
 
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Even in their natural form, Tilapines are hard to ID, there are perhaps over 100 different species that are similar when juvies.
Yours look to me like the line-bred color varient of pink Coptodan (T) zillii
Here are a few in natural coloration.
above a juvie, below an adult Coptodon (Tilapia) zillii
Below young Oreochromis (Tilapia) tanganykie
above sei-adult C tanganykie
Below young T niloticus
Below Saratherodon linnelli
Juvie above, adult below
and just a heads up, because you started the thread in S/Central American section, and although Tilapines have been introduced all over the Americas, and over the rest of the world, they are really Africans
 
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