Erm do cichlids lose colour from inbreeding? Surely it is crossing variants/species then inbreeding and poor selection that loses colour?
But then "cobalt blue" covers a variety of variants of M.callainos mixed to get our aquarium type without much loss of colour?
M. esthera covers a number of variants too. Are we saying this one is pure M.estherae Minos Reef? I realy dought it. :wink:
It is though a pretty fish.
The links are no good anymore. But if I recall, the second very much resembled the markings of an exaperatus to me. I used to have a female that inbred with my Kenyi and Red Zebras a lot and thats what they looked like often.
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