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Amphilophus trimaculatus


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"I have one that looks like a trimac don't know if he is a true one or a crossbreed"

This is the problem. People who want to keep pure species are struggling to find things they are really confident are true.

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I doubt anything that exotic Lyonsii aren't out here that I have heard of

as far as Citrinellum & tagging a type locale of wild Devil complex out here

:lol5: forget getting names of fish from O/sea's forums to try and match it

there is no real way of guessing its parentage unless you know

who and where it came from and ask them

there are way too many input options in Frankenfish

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I thought a trimac was just a low grade flowerhorn?

Wow man you need to do some more research ....flowerhorns are just a man made crossbreed that has seriously

affected the hobby with people dumping poor quality flowerhorns onto the market as trimacs.

Trimacs are a true species that the flowerhorn is based on when they crossbreed them and create Frankenfish (flowerhorns)

Trimaculatum good pure naturally occuring species.....

Flowerhorn has there own following but basically bad and frowned upon by most purist hobbiests.

Kevin

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I know what a flowerhorn is and from the pics on Google my fish has just about every attribute a pure trimac does. See the problem with these forums is everyone thinks they know exactly what something is or how it will behave. I have a tank full of Americans people said u can't put together... well they are all getting along fine. Even if it is a cross breed, this probably will in fact be like other animals where the cross breeding can and has eliminated the genetic faults these creatures have. don't know what the big deal is I said I don't know if it is pure or not and really how do any of u know either? Lol u guys need to relax a bit ;)

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The only way to know purity on many occasions is a trusted knowledge of its history.

A lot of budding aquarists do see things the way you do,,,, but long term experience shows knowledgable people's opions start to relate to one another and we can all confirm our findings with one another.

The fish in your tank are still babies, and Americans of this calibre do seem to snap and hell breaks loose at about three quarter size most of the time, if not, nearly every time.

A lot of people do swap around and get board of their fish and change the species they keep and never get to see the fishes true habits.

So, some people may give experiences/advice based on a premature outcome without knowing the true mature behaviors.

This is very typical of both Malawi and American fish keepers,,,,, it's crazy how big some Malawi fish get without most people ever knowing. (big difference between a 2 year old and a 6 year old fish).

Just all comes down to how you want to call the shots. :)

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Very true. I am prepared to offload fish when the time comes. Next year i am moving and that's when i will upgrade to a 10×3×2.5 can't wait. Epic tank. I am new to this hobby as I've only been in the cichlid scene for 1.5 years. All advice is taken on board and I do appreciate it. Cheers

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reading text can be taken the wrong way to how it was intended :smile:

and the comments were not meant to be taken as having a go at you

we have found that once the larger Americans get past the teenage

period they can develop a total change in attitude and as Buccal

says fish usually get sold off before reaching max size

ACE leans to keeping true strain species and having correct

identification of fish so that what is here will continue

the problem faced is more people want to create there own

fish to give it a trade name and only look at that without seeing

the long term problem this can create with new hobbiests that

don't know any better and then try to sell hybrids as true species

in a lot of LFS there is no ethics in educating the customer of

the choices or even correct identification of livestock in the shop

before just taking the money and also it can be people just

don't care either

How do we know it's true to species ?

Sorroz has true strain Trimacs and is one of a few that has

kept them true for many years

we have each been keeping cichlids for well over 30 yrs

damn that makes feel older and I would :lol5: but it takes

too long to just get up now

why don't they breed more ??

a major problem facing large Americans is the spawn size

verses the market need which is another topic

hope this answers some of your questions

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what works for one may not work for someone else

so all you can do is try what you like and maybe move

structure around to break up territories

a mates American tank was 10 x 3 x 3 and had 20+ 15-25cm fish

and it worked with minimal aggression but there were times

when someone had to be evicted :bye:

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