The issue that many people have with hybrids in the cichlid circles, is that one can only tell a hybrid, from a pure specimen, if it is obvious. In many cases this simply isn't the case at all, and due to sloppy breeding, ignorance, and/or financial greed, hybrids are passed along and sometimes only show up generations later. Other than perhaps entry level hobbyists everyone knows that an OB S. fryeri is a hybrid, it's as obvious as a Kamfa flowerhorn from Thailand being a hybrid. Designer fish are everywhere, Africans, CA's, SA's, you name it. But nobody wants to buy a group of fish as being pure, and after spending several months growing them out, or longer, sometimes even breeding them, to later find out they are hybrid crosses. It is the latter scenario that gives hybrids a black eye in the hobby.
