Confused! Blue Acar Or Green Terror?!!!!

[goodgodohgravy]

I've been reading a lot about the Blue Acar, often confused with the Green Terror. It's really hard to tell them apart but Blue Acaras have a marking on both of their cheeks ranging from the color of black to blue that no Green Terrors ahve. So I looked at my fish and saw that marking on both cheeks. I haven't seen and Gts with that marking so is it a Blue Acara?

[Karl]

i have had 2 green terrors before about 1 inch. they diddnt really have any stripes then but when they got to about 2-3 inches they started to get green stipes on each side of there face form. how big is it
heres a web site hope i helped
http://www.thetropicaltank.co.uk/Fishindx/blueacar.htm

[Chet]

yeah, blue acaras have the dark eye stripe running at a vertical slant. Very cool looking feature if you ask me.

[Rudy]

I think we may have just figured out Chets breeding fish issue then!

[goodgodohgravy]

I know how Green Terrors and Blue Acaras have those stripes of neon green on their face but im talking about a big patch of black on his cheeks.

My ''fish'' has these black patches on his cheeks like the Blue Acara:
http://www.myfishtank.net/images/fish/blueacara.jpg

I havent seen any Gts with these patches.

My fish is about 3 lil more than 3 inches in legnth. So which fish it? GT or BA?

[Rudy]

If the line is vertical and slanted running down his face it is most likely a blue acara. If the line runs horizontally down the body and into the face but still stays horizontal it is a gt.

[MARC]

I HAVE SEVERAL GREEN TERROR AND ONE KEY IS THAT MOST GREEN TERRORS HAVE EITHER WHITE OR ORANGE TIPS ON THERE FINS