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[bellybear]

I have seen you can get silver, blue, red texas....any body got any and how much please

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[malawiman85]

Is the blue not just normal texas?
Super Green Texas (H. carpintis) are nice.
Reds are hybrids... havent seen any in WA either.
Silver i've never seen before and not sure if they are a pure species or hybrids.

[Buccal]

You will find in oz :
Super green Texas (Escondido).
Common green Texas (common).
You may find the odd red Texas in oz, but most likely never see ones as good as internet pics,, as these are hybrids where a few different type of species can be used for parentage,,, the main four common parentages usage in oz is, super green Texas, common green Texas, Kingkong high head or other similar flowerhorn fish looks and fertile red parrot.
Ones In oz will be more orange than red looking, they can look very patchy when young, but they peel (drop all smudgy dark crappy colors), when young to leave the crisp background color with silvery white spots,,,, stunning fish, that's if you can find the 1 in every batch of 1000 or so,,,,, very, very, very hard work hybridizing these just to get one ore two good looking ones,,, that's why the A grade ones over seas cost in excess of $500, $800, $1100 each.
Sorry for so much info in classifieds,,, but it's a very unknown fish and not realized that anything that resembles just a bit of a proper one will fetch some pretty big dollars.

Edited by Buccal, 12 July 2016 - 02:50 AM.