Is this a Yellow Lab? Bought from assorted tank
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i'm thinking so. It seems it would be more ovious on a yellow lab to see if it was one or not than other diff colored or other cichlids; if that makes any since. What i mean is that if it was'nt full lab, i think most people who are familier to cichlids would know. Then again, it could be a mix or hybred.
But i'm still a nebie myself. This forum is great for getting diff peoples views.
But i'm still a nebie myself. This forum is great for getting diff peoples views.
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It's a yellow lab.
Sometimes these fish will display temporary 'stress bars' during certain circumstances (fear, cichlid intimidation, new environment, etc).
Here are some juvie yellow labs I was growing out...they have noticable stress bars:
Same juvies, just a little bigger (no stress bars, despite being closely inspected by a demasoni
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However, in poor quality labs the bars are more of a permanent pattern (usually the result of overbreeding rather than hybridization).
I see no 'non-yellow lab' traits in vanpudin's fish.
I see them in assorted tanks all the time. Not everything in those tanks are hybrid, and, conversely, I've seen hybrids in LFS 'species tanks' (for example blatant yellow lab/red zebra hybrids being sold as 'yellow labs').
Sometimes these fish will display temporary 'stress bars' during certain circumstances (fear, cichlid intimidation, new environment, etc).
Here are some juvie yellow labs I was growing out...they have noticable stress bars:
Same juvies, just a little bigger (no stress bars, despite being closely inspected by a demasoni
:
However, in poor quality labs the bars are more of a permanent pattern (usually the result of overbreeding rather than hybridization).
I see no 'non-yellow lab' traits in vanpudin's fish.
I see them in assorted tanks all the time. Not everything in those tanks are hybrid, and, conversely, I've seen hybrids in LFS 'species tanks' (for example blatant yellow lab/red zebra hybrids being sold as 'yellow labs').
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