TURQUOISE jewel cichlid!

[TigerTalon1]

Found this guy at my second favorite fish store. I’m wondering if these guys are a separate species from the red jewels? Or are they just a color mutation? Also can they be crossbred? Here is pics doesn’t really do just because his color is very intense.

 

[J. H.]

Most jewels are hemichromis sp. or hybrid of multiple hemichromis sp. Here is a link to the hemichromis picture ID page on Fishbase.
http://www.fishbase.org/identification/SpeciesList.php?genus=Hemichromis

 

[cockroach]

I have seen them looking like that with the red color muted when they are stressed in shop tanks.

With space, peace and a little TLC should be shimmering red soon

 

[duanes]

There are a number of Hemichromis species that don't always or constantly sport the red color, and especially when new to a tank, show what might be called submissive coloration.
H cerasogastor
H exsul
H sp Guinea 1 and 2
H stellifer
all show duller colors when semi adult, or in a submissive mode.
H cerasogastor and stellifer were both readily available in the US as far back as over 5 years ago from specialty cichlid breeders in my area.

 

[darth pike]

Last I heard, no one really knows if the Turquoise version is a line bred variant or if it is a hybrid.The likely case is probably both.

 

[TigerTalon1]

Last I heard, no one really knows if the Turquoise version is a line bred variant or if it is a hybrid.The likely case is probably both.

Can they be bred with red Jewels? So they’re are a man made color variant like the electric blue jack dempsey?

 

[TigerTalon1]

More pics of him

 

[cockroach]

I like his look

 

[TigerTalon1]

I like his look

Me too and he’s only gotten brighter. I like how he has a full blue body with red tips on his fins and the middle parts of the fins are yellow. I tried yesterday to add some zebra danios which I thought would be fast enough to survive with him but he ate all four of them!

 

[cesc776]

Me too and he’s only gotten brighter. I like how he has a full blue body with red tips on his fins and the middle parts of the fins are yellow. I tried yesterday to add some zebra danios which I thought would be fast enough to survive with him but he ate all four of them!

I cant answer any of the questions but he looks very much like one of mine. Couldn’t get any good pictures but he is as blue as yours in the right light.