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Fish Room Plus
08-26-2005, 8:25 PM
interested in answers
cuban jey
08-26-2005, 8:30 PM
looks like a widebar to me
Gr8KarmaSF
08-26-2005, 8:31 PM
I dont know but I want it!
Fish Room Plus
08-26-2005, 8:43 PM
did u "say helloo to my little friend"
guppy
08-26-2005, 10:24 PM
I found these pics, you choose.

they are 1, quadrifasciatus, 2, microlepis and 3, campbelli, or at least thats what they were labeled as.
kido
08-26-2005, 11:23 PM
its difficult to tell at that size, but it looks like an indo tiger (microlepis).. although it has 3 stripes at the body, the stripes on its tail looks that of an indo.. also the slope of the forehead is also like that of an indo tiger.. siamese tigers usually has a bump before the slope (check out the pics attached by guppy) ;)
marshy
08-27-2005, 1:30 AM
It may look like a widebar Dat in the first glance.. but to me its an Indo Dat.
redtailfool
08-27-2005, 1:36 AM
3 stripes at the tail gives it away. Very nice indo !
Steve_89
08-27-2005, 6:45 AM
I was thinking indo aswell :)

Enjoy him.
Fish Room Plus
08-27-2005, 8:49 AM
they were labled as "indonesian wide bar tigers"

thanks for the input everyone ;)
wism_chan
08-28-2005, 12:43 AM
If I'm not mistaken this should be Siamese Tiger fish.....it's from Thailand....
Jesse
08-28-2005, 2:22 AM
they were labled as "indonesian wide bar tigers"

thanks for the input everyone ;)
Yup, that's what they are, Alex. Datnioides microlepis or Indonesian datnoids. They can either have three bars like a widebar, four bars, or a different number of bars on each side. An "Indonesian widebar" is merely a "pick of the litter" D. microlepis that has three bars one each side. However, as Wesley correctly noted, the three tail stripes are a dead giveaway that it's a D. microlepis and not a D. pulcher, i.e., true widebar.
STIGenome
08-28-2005, 11:42 AM
That's definately a microlepis... Known as a Siamese Tiger Not an Indo Tiger... I have three of these...


Look in my gallery...
M|L
08-28-2005, 6:42 PM
Yup, that's what they are, Alex. Datnioides microlepis or Indonesian datnoids. They can either have three bars like a widebar, four bars, or a different number of bars on each side. An "Indonesian widebar" is merely a "pick of the litter" D. microlepis that has three bars one each side. However, as Wesley correctly noted, the three tail stripes are a dead giveaway that it's a D. microlepis and not a D. pulcher, i.e., true widebar.

Deathcurl has a true widebar with three tail stripes. :)

Fish Room Plus, I really don't know what your fish is... perhaps you can post more pictures?