Yellow strain of RTM? or Loiselli

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terd ferguson;3004689; said:
Red Tiger Motaguense is a pure Parachromis motaguense. It's not a hybrid (not that you said it was, just trying to avoid confusion). I don't think you could make it if it wasn't already in there somewhere. Line bred for color may be a better description.
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RTM are a wild form, not tank bred, from the Rio Montogua basin in northern Honduras and southern Guatamala. Most in the hobby are from the Rio Copan/Rio Blanco strain we introduced about 5-6 years ago. Before then almost all of them were the gold form from Southern Honduras and Nicaragua. Ken
 
It could be a loisellei, but its probably just the standard color mota.

So calling it a yellow RTM would be kind of silly.
 
Here's a photo of my old gold motaguense:
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And of a rtm and gold mota together:

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fishfarm;3005417; said:
RTM are a wild form, not tank bred, from the Rio Montogua basin in northern Honduras and southern Guatamala. Most in the hobby are from the Rio Copan/Rio Blanco strain we introduced about 5-6 years ago. Before then almost all of them were the gold form from Southern Honduras and Nicaragua. Ken
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Ok I thought they were tank bred like red tiger oscars & electric blue dempseys. I know they weren't hybrids though. I only knew the green hue & yellow/gold forms were original wild types. thanks for info.
 
My pair of RTM were very tolerant of each other. The male was so tolerant of the female that over the course of two years he lost 3/4ths of his tail to her nipping. Other than that they never showed much aggression toward each other. I sold them a few months back with the male pushing 12" and the female 8".
 
RedH2O;3008810; said:
Anyone breed them, whats a pair like? Anything like a jaguar?
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Same genus, very similar to Jaguar except dont grow to be as large. Depends on the fish for aggression, but in general an aggressive species. The species n the Parachromis genus form very strong bonds as they start breeding and will USUALLY take good care of each other, but they are rough. They are very good parents and will defend their territory.
 
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