I have an interesting question for the knowledgeable folks at MFK forums. This is my RTGG. I am pretty sure it is one. However, I have never been able to find another that looks like him or even close. Most RTGG I have seen are all grey or blue-grey or grey on top and white on the bottom with the red fins. Mine has a red body and fins with a blue-grey mask. The camera kind of washed him out, but the red is the same in the fins as the body and it is a brick(brownish) red, not the brilliant red that is more prevalent (I feel these are commercially raised some how and not natural. I could be wrong).
I little back story on him. I got him from a LFS in Los Angeles, CA back in 1992 (the same year the RTGG were identified). He was only 3" and horribly chewed up in a tank of green terror juvies. He had no fins at all, and the pectorals were bleeding stumps. The owner figured he was close to dead anyway and gave him to me for free. Score on my part! Nursed him back to health by hand feeding him because he could not swim w/o fins (and he still gets hand fed after all these years, sort of like a special bonding moment every day). All the fins grew back normal except the pectorals which grew back horribly crooked. You can see that in the pictures. So, yes, I have had him for 22 years, he is holding at 16" TTL. In those 22 years I have not seen another like him. Either on the internet or elsewhere. So I am curious, have you guys seen something like him before? I would welcome any comments , opinions, theories. Also, if you have a RTGG of your own, post it and let's compare.
I little back story on him. I got him from a LFS in Los Angeles, CA back in 1992 (the same year the RTGG were identified). He was only 3" and horribly chewed up in a tank of green terror juvies. He had no fins at all, and the pectorals were bleeding stumps. The owner figured he was close to dead anyway and gave him to me for free. Score on my part! Nursed him back to health by hand feeding him because he could not swim w/o fins (and he still gets hand fed after all these years, sort of like a special bonding moment every day). All the fins grew back normal except the pectorals which grew back horribly crooked. You can see that in the pictures. So, yes, I have had him for 22 years, he is holding at 16" TTL. In those 22 years I have not seen another like him. Either on the internet or elsewhere. So I am curious, have you guys seen something like him before? I would welcome any comments , opinions, theories. Also, if you have a RTGG of your own, post it and let's compare.