travisbundo said:
Was labeled as a Aulonocara Jacobfreibergi and purchased for $10. All the fish in the tank looked similiar, some had more red. This was one of the brighter, more distinct fish out of the bunch.
It was a local fish shop that gets his fish from another source every couple weeks and I was not familiar w/ peacocks at all so I wanted to get 2nd opinions.
No worries mate. I for sure was not trying to be harsh to you. Just Jakes cross with German Reds and it could be one of those.
I tend to like to know what a fish is labeled as, it kind of helps in guessing if it is a hybrid of what it is labelled as. But then a full switch is also likely. For sure I can not tell hybrid from pure much of the time (First generation crosses can look awful like eather pairent I think). It kind of goes with the good bits of buying Aulonocaras, so many are line bred and so many are hybrid and its very hard to tell the difference.
Though no one I know is better at telling em apart than Fogelhund.
I dunno why he reckons its a purish German Red type I hope he explains.
For me it still could be a young pure Jake (line bred "Eureka" etc) or much of what passes for these.
All the best James