I am a bit up in the air with this, I just recently bought 3 Festae, but I am thinking they might be Mayan Cichlid, What I believe to be the male out of the 3 was showing no bars so I decided to put in the tank with my Flowerhorn to get him barred up. here is the thing..
1. The tail spot is definitely in the top part and near perfectly round and pretty small, which would indicate Festae
2. The second bar doesn't join the 3rd bar to make a "4" or "Y" shape, which would indicate Mayan
3. I count 8 bars , I am mixed in this one because at first I thought mayans have only 7 bars while festae have 9 but after looking throught some google photos I see Mayans with 8 bars, saying that normally the mayan photo's I have seen have very straight bars.
Could someone tell me for sure what I have here, the water is stirred up due to pellets I was feeding and the fish chasing each other so it is a little murky.
thanks for your help, it would be great to get the correct species for these fish.