Blue acara or green terror?
- Thread starter Graham cal
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Looks likes green terror. Looks female but depends on size. How big is it?
It looks closer to a green terror that an acara, if anything. But not definitely one or the other.
How big is it?, Did you get it at a generic LFS?
At a young age, almost all Andiinoacara look alike., if so, you may need to wait until it matures to know.
My guess not knowing size, is Andinoacara pulcher, and a female By lack of color in the fins and how round the dorsal and anal tips are, and how far they extend into the caudal.
But it could also be A rivulatus or A blombergi, although if from a LFS blombergi is doubtful.
Here is A coerleopunctatus, one of the Andinoacara you could probably rule out .
male above, female below
But even with coerleopunctatus there are many similarities
At a young age, almost all Andiinoacara look alike., if so, you may need to wait until it matures to know.
My guess not knowing size, is Andinoacara pulcher, and a female By lack of color in the fins and how round the dorsal and anal tips are, and how far they extend into the caudal.
But it could also be A rivulatus or A blombergi, although if from a LFS blombergi is doubtful.
Here is A coerleopunctatus, one of the Andinoacara you could probably rule out .
male above, female below
But even with coerleopunctatus there are many similarities
Hi thanks for the reply. It's about 2 /3 inch I got sold it as a electric blue acara buts it's definitely not that ?
You may be aware of this, but just to blather
Electric blue acara is simply a commercial "made up" name for line bred species of Andinoacara pulcher".,
the fact that its not "that blue" might be, is was from a EBA spawn, but where the more blue genes (or other distinguishing feature traits) weren't passed along to this individual.
This can happen in any line bred species, or in hybrids where some look like the father, some the mother..
Being an EB is not an actual separate species, just a commercial man induced variant, just as red or yellow oscars are "not" separate species of oscars, the same goes for "German Blue Rams" or EBJD, or black guppies.
In any spawn of these varients, there can be a few individuals that revert to natural coloration.
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That looks like an Acara, but again it can be either a GT or an Acara.