baby severums? which one is what?

[woofy]

i dont know if this has been done but, ive been going crazy at lfs trying to figure out what type of severum their unlabled 1 inchers are, or if they are labled correctly. Like today i saw a tank full of really nice 1"+ sevs , they had adults of green severums and red heads, so i really wasnt sure what the little ones where. its hard for me to tell there patterns apart, so does anyone have pictures of what there sevs looked like when at 1-2", i would love to see babies of red heads , and greens and anything besides golds, those i can tell apart any help would be great as i would love to go back tomorrow and pick out the correc one if they have a red head baby.

Also what is a "necktie" and "orange shoulder"? are these trade names for something?

 

[TwistedPenguin]

Well....here's my female Turquoise (Green) Severum a wk or 2 after I got her. She was so tiny, she was the size of a dime counting her fins. I would've thought it was illegal to sell them that small. But there she was-in a tank at PetsMart with a bunch of big Sevs and Blood Parrots. It was my almost my birthday, that was my excuse lol

 

[jonnie5]

Green, red (albino), and wild is green with red around face neck area.

 

[woofy]

Thanks keep them coming. I would love to more pics of babies the ones i saw had no visible stipres but spots on the bottom instead and was light colored with some blushing in the gill area. The other was darker in body color with faint stripes and some spoting in the head and face.

 

[Bobears]

In my experience you can't really tell the difference between a green and red shoulder until about 3in. Turq's and gold are easy, but the cross breedings make all of it much more difficult. Stripes and bars have less to do with type and more to do with parents. For instance, right now I have a green and gold cross group of fry. All of the green variation have spots, the mother does not, she is striped.

Buy several and return what you don't like.

 

[craig_uk]

Right then. Ill play

Greens and golds are pretty straight forward. its the regional variations when you need to know your markings.

1st of all. Super reds are the only variation of gold. The young look like the adults, just smaller mark all over their body.

Not a big fan of golds, so ill concentrate on the green efasciatus and severus.

Right then. Heros SP "Notatus".

Here's the baby (too small to be sexed by markings yet). Note the vivid black marks extending half way up the body.

Heres the adult (this is a male)

Heros Sp "Rotkeil"
Difficult to ID when young as they lack the red shoulder

Here is the adult (this is a female i believe)

Heros SP "Inirida"
VERY similar to the common greens when young, but a very vivid white and black pattern.

I've never seen anything of these fish as adults (hopefully, will rectify this soon )

Here are just a few of the more "common" sub species with information online.

Without photos we wont be able to ID the sevs your describing. there are just too many sub species.

Craggy

 

[Militis]

Nice pictures

 

[craig_uk]

ah, not mine (wish they were )

Just a browse of a few sites i know.

 

[Cichla dude]

Here is my baby sev that I got form petsmart....

 

[woofy]

ok what ill do is by the three different patterns i saw, hopefully they are three different things and not jus the same ones just lighter or darker colored. then ill pst it her so u guys can id them.