Silver Datnoids...

[P3R3]

Do Silver Datnoids tend to look like this:
http://www.jjphoto.dk/fish_archive/warm_freshwater/coius_quadrifasciatus.jpg

or this?

http://wetwebfotos.com/media/medium/5/2750_Coius_quadrifasciatusAQBig.tif.jpg

[rkc772]

i think so... mine are pulcher and thin bar... they don't look like those even when they turn a little dark. i presume they are silver dat.:)

[datnioides]

Do Silver Datnoids tend to look like this:
http://www.jjphoto.dk/fish_archive/warm_freshwater/coius_quadrifasciatus.jpg

or this?

http://wetwebfotos.com/media/medium/5/2750_Coius_quadrifasciatusAQBig.tif.jpg
The fish in the first picture is Datnioides microlepis, aka Indonesian datnoid. The fish in the second picture is Datnioides quadrifasciatus, aka silver datnoid.

[vanimate]

The fish in the first picture is Datnioides microlepis, aka Indonesian datnoid. The fish in the second picture is Datnioides quadrifasciatus, aka silver datnoid.
:iagree: :grinyes:

[guppy]

When I think of silver datnoids I always think of this picture of the D. quadrifasciatus by Herbert Axelrod.

[Steve_89]

The fish in the first picture is Datnioides microlepis, aka Indonesian datnoid. The fish in the second picture is Datnioides quadrifasciatus, aka silver datnoid.

Agreed.

Guppy's is also a silver.

[P3R3]

I dont like that dark look of the silver. Or is that just lighting/freshwater thats causing it to look that dark?

[rallysman]

the silvers have the 2 little spots on their tails

[Euge]

i heard silver dats had to be kept in full brackish.. is that true?

[Honda12]

When I had mine he was in fresh and doing fine. The dumb thing would only eat black worms though, so I ended up selling him.

[P3R3]

So If you had the choice:
Silver Datnoid
FW Moray Eel
Orange Chromide
Dragon Goby

Which fish would you purchase?

[Honda12]

I have had all of those choices before and out of all of them I got the silver dat.

[P3R3]

I have had all of those choices before and out of all of them I got the silver dat.
Howd you like the dat? Is he bright silver and black or more dark like some of the pictures I have seen online?

[Honda12]

I liked him, he was really nice. He was silver and in the right light had a yellow tint to him. The only thing I didn't like is that he would only eat live blackworms. I stopped feeding them to him and he didn't eat for five weeks so I started back up again. They have great personalitys, just don't give them black worms. He also neve got to dark either, he kept his color well.

[P3R3]

I liked him, he was really nice. He was silver and in the right light had a yellow tint to him. The only thing I didn't like is that he would only eat live blackworms. I stopped feeding them to him and he didn't eat for five weeks so I started back up again. They have great personalitys, just don't give them black worms. He also neve got to dark either, he kept his color well.
So he looked more like the pic guppy posted? Sorry for all these questions, its just that its kinda an expensive fish ($24, poor college student) and want to make sure I get what I think I'm getting.

Btw I would never feed him blackworms, only chunks of prawn and other fish.

[Honda12]

Yeah like guppys pic but not as bleached out. How big is the one you are getting. Mine was 3in and I got it for $6. The only reason it got blackworms cuase it was in with my small ray and it got a taste for them and only them and wouldn't eat anything else.

[P3R3]

Yeah like guppys pic but not as bleached out. How big is the one you are getting. Mine was 3in and I got it for $6. The only reason it got blackworms cuase it was in with my small ray and it got a taste for them and only them and wouldn't eat anything else.
A 2" costs $17 - $24 around here.

The wholesale cost is around 8 dollors. And I have to buy the fish sigh-unseen since its a special order!

[JD7.62]

I liked mine. I only had him for a little while as I traded him for a 15" B. Juruense! No joke! He was $9 and about 4" at my LFS.

[berserker]

I've had my 3'' one since February. Hes more like the one in the second photo. I once had him in a tank with light sand & he coloured really well. Hes slightly darker in my 100G with black sand. Like all Dats his colour varies according to mood but hes way more stable than my 7'' Indo. Eats frozen bloodworm, krill and earthworms very well. kept in freshwater with no rpoblems. A really superb fish & I'd choose it over an Indo anytime (not of course a Widebar though).

[T1KARMANN]

i think so... mine are pulcher and thin bar... they don't look like those even when they turn a little dark. i presume they are silver dat.:)

lets see some pics of your pulchers

[Tyler]

i have 2 and one looks like the top one and the other looks like the bottom nd thier both silvers

[datnioides]

i have 2 and one looks like the top one and the other looks like the bottom nd thier both silvers
Look again. D. microlepis has much finer scales than D. quadrifasciatus, hence the name "microlepis" = small scales. I recall reading somewhere, I believe in the old TFH book Exotic Tropical Fishes, that D. quadrifasciatus has only around 70 scales on the lateral line versus approximately 105 for D. microlepis. Thus, the individual scales on D. quadrifasciatus are about 1 1/2 times the size of those on D. microlepis.

[Opiate]

they look averagew when there silver i reckon....still love to own 1 tho!!