Aequidens sp. Red Saum ...Massive Male.

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Just ordered another new fishie, coming on tuesday.



This is not a sp. Gold Saum (commonly encountered "green terror" species.



Pics provided are the pics Jeff gave me. to pumped up to wait and post my own. (updated pics will come on arrival).


Only one i know of on the forums, if anybody else keeps reds i'd love to see them.

 

[AttackFish]

Whatta beast!

 

[M|L]

what's the difference?

 

[James B.]

Nice! how big is he? he looks like a brute.

 

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what's the difference?

the Deep Red Trim on the Fins is the obvious physical difference. there's other more technical data with origin area and such i'm sure but i don't know enough about the species to get into that. also if you look at any average Gold saum here you can see the much more vivid and total marking of scales (everywhere and super green) where as average saums have smaller and less amounting amount and have a light blue/green tint rather than fullout green. Not sure the size difference between Reds and Golds, but MM's wild Golds are roughly the same size. (captive grown i have not seen over 10-11".)

Nice! how big is he? he looks like a brute.

listed at 11-12". i'll break out the tape when i get him here.

Whatta beast!

Thanks!

 

[N-E Cichlids]

I'll have to look more closely at the 8" male I have at the shop. Almost looks identical right down to the nice hump on the head.

 

[cichlaguapote]

listed at 11-12". i'll break out the tape when i get him here.



Thanks!

So he should be like 9-10"? lol (kidding, I know how his sizes run though)

Great pickup!

 

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So he should be like 9-10"? lol (kidding, I know how his sizes run though)

Great pickup!

spot on with that comment though. last fish he sold me were supposedly 1.5-2". when in fact i'd put them a 1/4"-1/2".

He's great quality and the MOST reliable shipper i have had experience with so i really don't mind. (get's some REALLY cool and UBER rare guys in ever now and then. Beani's, That rare iranian cichlids i forgot the name of...etc.

 

[Ripdevil]

cool, i bought a 4-5 inch red suam from Jeff, its very bright orange, but there is nothing red about it, its jsut a regular gold saum like we are used to seeing, but wild caught and with very nice colors. jeff told me to let it adjust and the finage would turn red, not so much, i saw this fish for sale that you got, its worth $200, but dont expect actual red, more like a deep orange

 

[greenterra]

cool, i bought a 4-5 inch red suam from Jeff, its very bright orange, but there is nothing red about it, its jsut a regular gold saum like we are used to seeing, but wild caught and with very nice colors. jeff told me to let it adjust and the finage would turn red, not so much, i saw this fish for sale that you got, its worth $200, but dont expect actual red, more like a deep orange

I have to agree with Ripdevil.The subject has already been brought up before by davidefc in this thread.http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1712752#post1712752