Black wolf Owners/experts????

[jelly]

Channarox. I thought that also and have commented that myself. I am trying to get some very good photos of my two to attempt to prove they are different species. I have a contact who was one of the people that wrote the description of the lacerdae group which curipira is part of.

Do you have a link to seichii's comments. Thanks

 

[channarox]

Channarox. I thought that also and have commented that myself. I am trying to get some very good photos of my two to attempt to prove they are different species. I have a contact who was one of the people that wrote the description of the lacerdae group which curipira is part of.

Do you have a link to seichii's comments. Thanks

interesting.
hmmm,i'll have to look for the links when i have the time.

 

[xander]

i thought the variants from brazil got much smaller than the ones in venezuala?
i think i remember seichii saying that,and he posted a very large venezualan black wolf.

anyways,to all of you,i say try it.
im dying to try it myself really,might even use my armatus money to get a black wolf instead....hmmm.

oh,and HKN has had black wolves (yeah,two of them i think),with other fishes.
theyre were the biggest,if not one of the biggest,in that tank.

will respond to the rest later, but regarding the combo, i am still undecided. HKN's not the most conservative member in terms of risky combos, and i'm quite the opposite. so that's not really going to convince me. however if i manage to get my african aro out of my growout im definatly going to get one of these. just need to make that fish grow....

 

[channarox]

will respond to the rest later, but regarding the combo, i am still undecided. HKN's not the most conservative member in terms of risky combos, and i'm quite the opposite. so that's not really going to convince me. however if i manage to get my african aro out of my growout im definatly going to get one of these. just need to make that fish grow....

well,look at the past few pages.
no problems with tankmates,even one guy whose had one with piranhas.
jelly is the only one who has had a problematic wolf.
oh and dude,if you get one im getting one too.

 

[jelly]

Xander. I am extremely risk averse as well. It took a very long time and a lot of reading to get to the point where I would try it. I sat in front of the tank for a couple days looking for any sign of trouble. I am three weeks in and have had no issues to speak of. I would still however be cautious with fish you value that are not robust enough to take a hit, just incase. My brother inlore has a large 15” Venezualan captured black and has also cohab’d him with other fish.

The wolf I cannot cohab was a black from Brazil. It looks slightly different in build and only when displaying it’s dark colour do my two look alike. Both of my fish have the same ray counts, lateral scale counts and pore counts so by the current description they are the same species, Hoplias curipira. At worst this could highlight a vast differences in personality of the same species or they could be closely related separate species.

This is the Brazilian captured Black Wolf.

 

[Tigriuns™]

since this thread is about black wolf.. I got a question. As I am now keeping a 10" black wolf, but still getting 1 more in a week time. Can I comm them? Worry my rare fish will attack each other...BTW the one one is 13"

 

[Tigriuns™]

Hi Jelly,

I do a search on Hoplias curipira... Notice that the last word curipira means some kind of demon right? New common name Xingu sp. black wolf ------> black demon wolf what do you think?

 

[koop171]

Hi Jelly,

I do a search on Hoplias curipira... Notice that the last word curipira means some kind of demon right? New common name Xingu sp. black wolf ------> black demon wolf what do you think?

Yeah If I remember right the Black Ps. was undefined untill last year or so that's when they picked up the Curipira name. b/c untill then they still were not sure it it was something that was already defined but a different color variant.

If i'm not mistaken I think it was braveheartcali that posted a thread on it.

^^^ here's the link

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=250631

 

[jelly]

Yes they were described fairly recently. I have read the document lots of times I know the document almost word for word. Thats the definition that suggest my two are the same species. Braveheart also thinks they are the same species.

 

[channarox]

i do believe they are the same species.
there are so many aimara variants out there,some, getting bigger than others,some more aggressive.
same with lacerdaes.