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He looks alot like a Leiarius longibarbis. But the head is weird. The colour pattern is also off. In person he looks much more orange (all over base colour) with small black spots over the entire fish without any markings that resemble a longibarbis'. What you guys think? he is ~27"
Is it the same age as the others? Maybe the spots break up w/ age, correct me if I'm wrong.
Raised in the same sized tank? Reason I ask is I've seen fish deformed by growing up in way undersized tanks end up looking like that. Like 15"+ common ple cos forced to grow into 30 gallon tanks (oh yes, I made them buy a bushynose after bringin these in)
Tyler
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This is the oldest of the ones i own. Howveer this fish has always had ample space. Ive had it since it was 8" (the store kept it only for s hort time) from 8-18" it was in a 300gal from then on its been in a 450. So i dont think space has been an issue.
That's wierd....I would tend to agree with Silurus then. Maybe this fish was just dealt a very mixed hand from the genetic deck of cards. That could've included it's strange pattern too.
