Tell Me What They Are?
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Tell Me What They Are?
Hi all,not too sure what i have here.Sold as L129 but am leaning towards L209.But even that im not sure on.Can anyone shed any light? cheers...
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Re: Tell Me What They Are?
We need a high quality close up picture of its teeth to identify the fish.
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Re: Tell Me What They Are?
will try, they like to hide when i go near the tank so may take a bit.Haavard Stoere wrote:We need a high quality close up picture of its teeth to identify the fish.
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Re: Tell Me What They Are?
Body shape indicates a I'm pretty sure they are L209 or one of the other lookalike L numbers [there are several pretty much similar fish from different places, and it's very hard to tell them apart as colour differences aren't very good indicators - they can change colour based on mood, health and environment, and of course, photograph's are not always accurate in colour anyways].
Having said that, L209 (Rondonia, Mid-west Brazil) comes a long way different from L129 (Border between Venezuela and Colombia), and doesn't look particularly similar either.
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Having said that, L209 (Rondonia, Mid-west Brazil) comes a long way different from L129 (Border between Venezuela and Colombia), and doesn't look particularly similar either.
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Re: Tell Me What They Are?
MatsP wrote:Body shape indicates a I'm pretty sure they are L209 or one of the other lookalike L numbers [there are several pretty much similar fish from different places, and it's very hard to tell them apart as colour differences aren't very good indicators - they can change colour based on mood, health and environment, and of course, photograph's are not always accurate in colour anyways].
Having said that, L209 (Rondonia, Mid-west Brazil) comes a long way different from L129 (Border between Venezuela and Colombia), and doesn't look particularly similar either.
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Indeed these peckoltia pretty hard to tell apart ,why i endeed up askin , can normerly tell with use of your huge cat-eLog ,but was a bit out of my depth with this one .
still try and get a tooth shot of him though. thx =)
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Re: Tell Me What They Are?
The tooth shot will primarily tell us that its a Peckoltia or a Panaque. If its Peckoltia there will still be lots of different kinds to try to ID it from.
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Re: Tell Me What They Are?
Body shape and pattern doesn't match any Panaque that I know of.
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Re: Tell Me What They Are?
That's what I was thinking too. Tooth morphology isn't going to help a lot in distinguishing between Peckoltia, though.MatsP wrote:Body shape and pattern doesn't match any Panaque that I know of.
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