It looks like your Red Texas is developing nicely, and looks like it might be a fader. If it peels red, you will have a show fish.
Huh. I thought my PetSmart special had turned out to be exactly what I paid for.It looks like your Red Texas is developing nicely, and looks like it might be a fader. If it peels red, you will have a show fish.
I said the same thing for years but always had mobs forming with pitchforks and torches coming after me lol. Theres like 7 pages of some jill or something talking about her red fish, the red one etc in the petsmart thread. The fish didnt have a spec of red on it and the update pics stopped well before the fish reached adulthood.I find it laughable it when people market and sell fry as red texas cichlids because of the parents used to create a Red Texas hybrid. There's no guarantee you will get a cichlid that looks like a carpintis and be orange/red as adults. Even more laughable is when the adults are called red texas because of the lineage, and it doesn't have the visual traits of a Red Texas hybrid.
Will do. I have enjoyed watching him grow and change. It seems that he has more changes to come and it's exciting to see what he will turn into. He's like a Russian doll, one fish hidden inside another, inside another....I look forward to his progression. Keep us in the loop.
Wow! You really found yourself a stunning hybrid.... at this point I wouldnt even know what to call it lol... great find buddy!Here's what he looks like today in late adolescence. He's about 8 inches long, 5 inches tall and 2 inches wide. He's still growing, as is the nuchal hump.
I would say he's more of a purple Texas than red. His other side has more green. I don't have a lot of experience judging quality because I just got him as a wet pet. I am guessing he's not any show fish but that's OK. He's still beautiful and wow, does he ever have personality and brains.
Caligula ruled a tank full of festae and jewel cichlids before he got too rough for all of them and ended up with his own bachelor pad.