Hi bro
Can I know how you manage to bring back the fishes from japan? I thought that we are not allow to bring live things back from oversea.
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Koolman
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SO i brought this back from Japan...but i think i got 2 different species?? The one pictured here does not have a block spot on its belly...the others have it.. weird...so now i'm not too sure..
Anyway.. these fishes are the ones that Corydoras hastatus will naturally school with in the wild...so yeah.. waiting for my batch of C.hastatus to come in so that i can put them together....
Going to take pic of the ones that have spot now..
*moss reflection onto the stomach..thats why green green..
Hi bro
Can I know how you manage to bring back the fishes from japan? I thought that we are not allow to bring live things back from oversea.
Cheers
Koolman
98366373
well.. you thought wrong..haha..
Check the AVA website..and the regulations on fishes.
There is also a thread on overseas fishes on this site... do a search... you'll be surprised.
I think there are a few species with very similar markings. I still have 2 pieces from years ago. Just lost one recently.
By the way, I believe Corydoras hastatus also shoal with the notorious Aphyocharax paraguayensis.
Cheers,
I have dwarf cichlids in my tanks! Do you?
Hmm... According to Fishbase, O. kriegi is a synonym for Serrapinnus kriegi. Don't seem to find a whole lot of information about them on the Internet.
Yeah.. there is real sparse information about them here and there.. no one really knows much about them... i've taken pictures of the other types i have in my tank..After looking at the photos.. i think there are 3 different species now... i love how these fishes look so alike but yet are so different...just like how people get confused sometimes on Hyphessobrycon stictus and Hyphessobrycon roseus.
Here are the pics..
This one is the same as the first one on this post... just a better positioning..
This is the one that has the belly spot.. but check out the patterning on that adipose fin!! and the general shape, especially the head shape is so different. I'm thinking obviously a different fish...
This is the last fish... smaller than the other 2 in size... but similar looking to fish 2... hmmm... but i am spotting some differences already...
What do you think??
p.s. sorry for the dirty glass shots... rather have a nice coloured fish than nice clear pale looking ones..
Top one looks like female. The bottom two looks like male.
Cheers,
I have dwarf cichlids in my tanks! Do you?
Hmm... aren't those C. hastatus?!?!?! Just kidding...
The last two could be the same, S. kriegi, just that the last one seems very much like a juvenile. So that could explain the differences.
Not sure about the first one, could be sexual dimorphism like Benny mentioned, but the head shape looks suspicious. I remember seeing a picture with that similar shape, if not wrong it's labelled as one of the Odontostilbe spp.
I'll post again if I happen to find out anything from the Internet.
Har? i thought Odontostilbe is synonym to Serrapinnus??
Benny... how you know? or just guess one??
Specifically, O. kriegi is a synonym of S. kriegi, but not the entire genus lah. Some other fish species are still in the Odontostilbe genus.
Found some supposedly pictures of S. kriegi.
http://www.hippocampus-bildarchiv.de...tostilbe?).htm
Also, from Salmlernetz (crappy translation from German language using language tools)
Can read German or have any of the publications mentioned? It is said that the spot on the abdomen can sometimes be missing in the fish and photos from different publications look different as well.Originally Posted by www.salmlernetz.de
Wow... pretty cool stuff..
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