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Help! Unintended hybrids?

#6345
Stefanie Rick
Participant

Got some more pictures today. To me – still looking “nagyish” from first impression – but the closer you look the stranger the colours you detect:

Watch the purple proximal base of the dorsal fin resp. the bluish proximal base of the anal fin along the belly, which becomes red near the caudal end of the fin:

Against the light – strange colouration of the dorsal fin – even for a young fish with no fully developed colouration. Note the purplish base.

The white spot near fin ray no 10 is no artefact, it can be seen from far(not sharp, but just to give an impression, also see first picture of this post):

The caudal fin is almost framed by a strong white seam – even at the vertical hind rim of the fin. I’ve never seen this feature in my “true” nagyi male.