TheJEWEL;1310582; said:
zoo york, is a 'pulcher' the one shown in your gallery? - the fish in my pic looks pretty similar to yours? - I just picked up another juvenile tiger today with more defined stripes, which resembles yours a bit more.
islander- the book i've been referring to is 'brackish -water fishes' ---neale monks editor. been told my many that this is a good and reliable source for info.
ive think ive heard of that book, and that has good info, but again, for datnioides species in particular the info has always been mixed.
and the only pics i see in zooyorks gallery are thin bars, not pulchers. although i do think he has some pulchers.
you do have some nice looking and stable little dats, but again i lean towards d. microlepis for the following reasons:
general bar pattern resembles that of what is more common in microlepis than pulcher such as the middle bar positioning and sweep. it also has a steep slope as opposed to a more gradual sweep back as found in d. pulcher. additonally siamese tiger will rarely have 3 tail stripes, where as indos can commonly have 3 or 2. i also feel that a pulcher the size of the one in your picture would be extremely hard to find, and very very expensive. the most recent pulcher ive seen at such a small size was almost a year ago in japan, and even then the id was questionable.
again very nice dats you have.