Is a Red Head Cichlid the same as a Synspillum?

Lol. Flowerhorns are hybrid. Red head cichlids are one of the fish that is in them :) Any info you wanna know, you should use google. Google helps, I learnt everything I know about fish from there (and expirance).

Synspilum Cichlid

"Red Head Cichlid" is one of several popular names for the Synspilum cichlid (there's only one "L" in "Synspilum"). The scientific name is (probably) Paratheraps synspilus, but it has also been listed as Paraneetroplus synspilum, Vieja synspila, Amphilophus synspilus and exCichlasoma synspilum. The old scientific name was Cichlasoma synspilum, which is why the species is still popularly called "Synspilum, but the genus Cichlasoma was massively revised in the 1980s and 90s, and there has been a lot of confusion and disagreement ever since then about the proper genus names for the species that used to be in Cichlasoma.

Some of the other popular names for Paratheraps synspilus include Plum Head, Purple-Headed Cichlid, Fire Head, Pastel Cichlid, and (my favorite) Quetzal Cichlid.

It is native to the Usumacinta River drainage of Mexico, Belize and Guatemala, which is approximately a tropical rain forest habitat.

In a large aquarium (which it requires), the Quetzal cichlid can reach a length of 1.5 feet, and perhaps even larger (males are considerably larger than females). This is not a "small tank" fish. It is an omnivorous fish and is said to eat a lot of fruit in the wild, so it should get vegetables or fruit as part of its diet. Some Quetzal cichlids, especially male ones, develop large head humps (also known as nuchal humps, koks, or wens), but not all of them do.

"Flower Horn" is a catch-all name for a group of artificial "test tube" interspecies hybrids of (mainly) Central American and Mexican cichlids. Since Flower Horns don't exist in nature, they don't have a scientific name. Various species seem to have been used as parent stock, possibly including the Quetzal cichlid. Most of the Flower Horns I've seen, though, look more like deformed versions of the Three-Spot Cichlid, Amphilophus Trimaculatum (also known as the Trimac Cichlid). Lately, there have been a lot of "Texas Flowerhorns" on the market. Texas Flowerhorns' shape and spot patterns indicate that they have Texas Cichlids, Herichthys cyanoguttatus, or Green Texas Cichlids, Herichthys Carpintis, somewhere in their genetic ancestry.

Most old cichlidophiles, including me, have no interest in artificial hybrid cichlids. They just take up tank space you could be using for any of the beautiful and fascinating natural cichlid species.

As you probably know, Red Oscars, Tiger Oscars, Gold Oscars, Bronze Oscars, and Albino Oscars are just tank-bred color varieties of the same species, the Oscar, Astronotus ocellatus. Wild Oscars are brown with some red spots and some dark ocelli (eye-like spots). There is also a tank-bred long-finned mutation of Oscars, but they are not very popular because they are, frankly, ugly. Then there are some Oscars sold that have been dyed blue or purple or fluorescent green or some other god-awful color, about which the less said, the better.

there afre certain genetic traits that follow red head genes, because it is a small percentage and well documented scientists have a good idea of certain things that are more likely to affect redheads. Examples can be skin problems, red heads are not only more common for freckles for certain skin cancers and such. Redheads are also supposed to feel the heat more and be prone to sunstroke.

Flower Head Cichlid