Anostomus trimaculatus (crappy pic inside)

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
C

CTU2fan

Feeder Fish
MFK Member
Mar 12, 2007
3,123
3
0
Port Orange, FL
2


Excuse the cheap cam pic. Saw these for the first time 2 weeks ago, went back to LFS and got one. I was thinking of grabbing all 4 but this guy seemed to be picking on the others so I assumed a small group wouldn't work (probably 10-12 might be OK). Very different from A. anostomus. Not a headstander at all, swims horizontally and doesn't have the underbite of a headstander. Watching it in action it looks/acts like a more predatory fish, a hunter, not the peaceful browser type like the A. anostomus I've had. It has some red tinting in the fins which doesn't show up in the pic...between my cam and the activity of the fish it's the best I could do :(

Anyone else have these, maybe pix of an adult? Mine is about 3-4", supposed to get to 8".
 
I can't see the pic but it sounds awesome! Have an a. anon myself.
 
NICE
And that's a Leporinus, not an Anostomus. Let me check my book real quick. I have 2 very rare Leps myself. We might have a lot to talk about!
 
Maybe this works...

A. Trimac..jpg
 
Nope - correct my mistake. (And yours) it is in fact an Anostomus gracilis.

I knew that A. trimac 's shape was wrong, so there you go! Awesome fish.
 
Hmm I wondered...I tried googling for A.trimac pix and they were close, but the descriptions said the eye was the 3rd spot that led to the name. This guy clearly has 3 spots, and it would be 4 if you included his eye.
 
santoury;807831; said:
Nope - correct my mistake. (And yours) it is in fact an Anostomus gracilis.

I knew that A. trimac 's shape was wrong, so there you go! Awesome fish.
Click to expand...

So A. gracilis then...ooh, more research. I had a copy of the big Axelrod atlas that I'd have liked to check, but it's somewhere in my parents' house in CT and they can't seem to find it. I miss the pre-internet days when you'd see a new fish and buy it, thinking it's rare...and then it kills everything :)
 
Yep - that's the book I found A. gracilis in, and that's your fish, not A. trimac. In fact, A. trimac is mostly gray, with 2 black spots, with a different body shape. Have fun looking up A. gracilis. Looks great! I'm surprised how closely it resembles a Leporinus.
 
Found a pic online, gracilis for sure. Yeah it really does have more of a leporinus shape to him. And he acts more like a lep also, I've got some convicts in there and he doesn't take anything from them. Honestly if I thought they'd coexist and I had a bit more space I'd get the other 3, $7 apiece at the lfs.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
MonsterFishKeepers.com
Top Bottom