My Galaxy Cichlid project!
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Not sure what the 4th Texas is in your explanation - still seems like 3 to me. The Red Texas vs. Supre Red Texas is just the difference in marketing names - they are the same hybrid fishes.
Faint baring is part of the color pattern of both JD's and Texas. It is not there dominant color pattern, but show this pattern at times. If you go back to the OP's photos of his female "Texas" you can see baring on it. I even noticed the faint baring pattern on some gold JD's I raised up several years ago. Whether they show the pattern or not is related to their mood. Female JD's in breeding dress can get very definite dark and light baring patterns.
I would guess the hybrid shown is of a JD & Cyan (Texas Blue) because of the size and distribution of the spotting/pearling. This is just a guess and no one can know for sure just like we can't know for sure that your female "Texas" is pure Carpintis, but this seems to be the most reasonable guess. So I would suggest the pair you have may produced better looking "Galaxy" hybrids that the one in the picture - that assumes you prefer the larger spotting of the Carpinits vs. the Cyan.
Yeah I know of the barring on a Texas/Green Texas and JD, still odd in my eyes. As stated, also the shape and coloration. Then again I don't have that much experience with 'em so it's only a feeling.
The four 'Texas' I mentioned are the:
1.) Texas, aka Herichthys cyanoguttatum
2.) Green Texas, aka Herichthys carpintis
3.) Blue Texas, designation applied for both Texas and Green Texas, and some other related species (like Herichthys minckleyi). Some places use the designation for one specific species - I assume your area's LFS and breeders refer to Texas as 'Blue Texas/Texas-Blue', but in other areas 'Blue Texas' refers to Green Texas. Here in Australia Blue Texas refers to both species, and in America oher species are referred to as such as well (as mentioned). Hence yeah. Not a good name to use universally as it is highly confusing.
4.) Red Texas, aka the hybrid.
Anyways the project didnt work the male jack got too aggressive towards the female texas all of the sudden. =[
So I substituted the regular male for a Bigger Blue male that's a little more tolerant. They're doing well for now..
So I substituted the regular male for a Bigger Blue male that's a little more tolerant. They're doing well for now..
If I got Galaxys with blue gene and crossed em back with a blue dempsey once again I'd get 50% "blue"galaxy fry..it could be an alternative to creating a stronger and more resilient "ebjd looking" fish.... no?
Please do it. 
They look very good. Good luck, offspring will look nice!
theres a better than good possiblity imo, but don't assume that a color gene from one species will affect another...if it does, it may not be as predictable as you might hope.
Well we all got to agree that if u crossed a blue dempsey (aa) with a regular texas (AA) the fry would be (AA,AA,Aa,Aa) right? meaning only half would have the gene that stimulates the production of iridescent blue cells BUT THAT WOULDN'T SHOW ON THEM. Now if you recrossed one of these hybrids that happened to have carried that specific gene (Aa's) with another (aa) male blue dempsey, you would get (AA,Aa,aa,aa) right? Meaning that half the fry would have it and WOULD SHOW IT because it's dominant on them...
So regardless of anything the first batch would look like hybrid between a reg jack and a texas. Although the second gen would have a similar fry but with half of them being "electric". It would be ore shaped like a jd because of it being 75% jack dempsey. But as you would keep the ones that had the most speckles and looked more colorful, the patterns would resemble one of a texas as they have the most.. colors would vary, but 50% percent of the fry would surely look " bluer " than the other half. IMO it'd be an extremely blue fish since the texas has a lot of it and a blue jd is the only entirely blue freshwater fish.
I'ma do it...you'll see! lol
So regardless of anything the first batch would look like hybrid between a reg jack and a texas. Although the second gen would have a similar fry but with half of them being "electric". It would be ore shaped like a jd because of it being 75% jack dempsey. But as you would keep the ones that had the most speckles and looked more colorful, the patterns would resemble one of a texas as they have the most.. colors would vary, but 50% percent of the fry would surely look " bluer " than the other half. IMO it'd be an extremely blue fish since the texas has a lot of it and a blue jd is the only entirely blue freshwater fish.
I'ma do it...you'll see! lol
just give me about 2 years and a half lol