Calling All you Severum Fans.................

[Cichla dude]

I have a rotkiel severum.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN

 

[ryansmith83]

I don't remember probably about the same time as you did

I posted mine a couple pages back:

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3425986&postcount=1239

the male is starting to show red behind his gills like a rotkiel.

 

[peathenster]

the male is starting to show red behind his gills like a rotkiel.

maybe he is one

 

[ryansmith83]

maybe he is one

That was my guess. I don't know much about the distribution of severums in the wild. Do the Tapajos efasciatus and the rotkeil occur in the same area? Or maybe they just got mixed up somewhere between the exporter's place and Jeff's. *shrug* Either way, they're slow growers!

 

[peathenster]

That was my guess. I don't know much about the distribution of severums in the wild. Do the Tapajos efasciatus and the rotkeil occur in the same area? Or maybe they just got mixed up somewhere between the exporter's place and Jeff's. *shrug* Either way, they're slow growers!

JD has an older one from Jeff sold to him as efasciatus "tapajos", and it looks a lot like a rotkeil too. Stunning fish whatever it is

 

[GOOBERFISH]

no its not a rokeil mine was like that as well.

Heres a picture I took a month or 2 back of my male and female

 

[darth pike]

I don't know much about the distribution of severums in the wild. Do the Tapajos efasciatus and the rotkeil occur in the same area?

They rotties and Red Head Tapajos aren't found near each other in the wild. The redheads are from eastern brazil obviously and the rotties are found around Iquitos, Peru.

 

[peathenster]

I don't know much about the distribution of severums in the wild. Do the Tapajos efasciatus and the rotkeil occur in the same area?

They rotties and Red Head Tapajos aren't found near each other in the wild. The redheads are from eastern brazil obviously and the rotties are found around Iquitos, Peru.

more info on the red head please?

 

[darth pike]

There isn't any that I know of, other than coming from the Tapajos ... a regional variant of the green sev. Rapps was the first to get them in I believe, and just that just this year.

 

[ryansmith83]

no its not a rokeil mine was like that as well.

Heres a picture I took a month or 2 back of my male and female

Joel, mine look the same. I have a male and female as well. The male has blue striation on the face and red developing behind his gills. The female remains pretty colorless and shows bars most of the time. They look about the same size, too.

I sometimes use Amazon Exotic Import's website as a reference. They have two listings: one for H. sp. 'Tapajos' and one for H. sp. 'Tapajos Red Spot.

H sp. Tapajos: http://amazon-exotic-import.de/Gallerie/Cichliden/Seiten/Heros%20sp.%20Tapajos.htm (The fish in the background is obviously not the same as the one in the foreground and appears to be a rottie, which is what mine looks more like!)

H. sp. Tapajos Red Spot: http://amazon-exotic-import.de/Gallerie/Cichliden/Seiten/Heros spec. Tapajos Red Spot.htm

Mine don't look like either of those. Like I said, they look more like green severums (their bodies are tan/green/brown) but with the red on the neck.