My new 8"+ Banded Sevrum

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Very nice looking severum. They've got great personality. I'll attach a pic of my Rotkeil. At first, I thought mine was a green or at least a turqoise but after I had it for a month or two I figured it out through tons of research. Unfortunately, my LFS doesn't have the best knowledge available. I have gone in to help them ID a fish once or twice before. They typically don't know what they have for sale, much less price they should sell it at. Great news for me is that they know I have the space and ability to care for a lot of the larger species, so I can get better prices on ones that are too big for most other people.

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That's an awesome sev nixmix! I'm not positive what species mine is but someone here said turquoise! That's a sweet deal you have with your lfs! Besides petsmart/petco, I only have one lfs within 30 miles so I'm always jealous to hear about everyone's!

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The three pics that I attached don't do his green and gold colors justice. His colors pop really well in my tank. He's a happy little booger, too. He pairs off and spawns with my female green texas. Such an odd combination, but the salvini I keep in there goes up and sneaks little snacks from the eggs. I never see what their fry could possibly look like out of that combo. Hard to say, but fun to imagine. The severums are little stunners in the tanks though. Great grabs for you! Congrats on the find.
 
everlastace said:
That's an awesome sev nixmix! I'm not positive what species mine is but someone here said turquoise! That's a sweet deal you have with your lfs! Besides petsmart/petco, I only have one lfs within 30 miles so I'm always jealous to hear about everyone's!

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For the record, thanks for the compliment. Didn't mean to leave that out on my last post. :thumbsup:
 
Those would be some cool fry! I don't really wanna get into breeding mine but I would love to see his breeding colors.

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Breeding colors usually consist of the fish turning black with a white stomach and bright orange/red eyes. It's cool looking, but certainly not as colorful as he is right now. ;)
 
ryansmith83 said:
Breeding colors usually consist of the fish turning black with a white stomach and bright orange/red eyes. It's cool looking, but certainly not as colorful as he is right now. ;)
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Well if that's the case, I'm happy with what I have!

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Here are videos of my turquoise pair and my notatus pair with fry. You can see they both exhibit similar spawning colors.

[video=youtube;jEju-DCNdjo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEju-DCNdjo[/video]
 
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