Can someone please help me identify my rhom?

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mjoseph2

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Hi guys, thanks so much for your response. As suggested, I took a full body pic of my rhom. Hopefully, someone knows what kind he is.

Matt

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a rhom is a rhom is a rhom, can't really base on the picture to tell exactly what it is unless you put it out of the river yourself then you can say this is a rhom from xxxxx river.
I believe the only thing you can tell clearly is rather a rhom is a diamond variant or not...even the rhoms from the same river can appear to be different.
some good read
http://opefe.com/rhombeus.html
 
jp80911;3206980; said:
a rhom is a rhom is a rhom, can't really base on the picture to tell exactly what it is unless you put it out of the river yourself then you can say this is a rhom from xxxxx river.
I believe the only thing you can tell clearly is rather a rhom is a diamond variant or not...even the rhoms from the same river can appear to be different.
some good read
http://opefe.com/rhombeus.html

:iagree:

Some rhoms from Peru look very similar to your rhom, but as jp said, there's no knowing unless you pulled it out of the river yourself, and even then you can cast twice in the same spot, and pull two completely different looking rhoms out of the water.
 
yup yup!! agree with the above posters...

however the fish kind of looks like a s. gibbus to me... However they only come from one river and are very rare in the hobby and without knowing the collection point, I would have to go with a rhombeus.
 
I thought gibbus would have a bit more yellow than that...but I agree, without knowing the collection point can't be sure. some ppl say gibbus could be part of the rhombeus complex
 
dudey;3207486; said:
yup yup!! agree with the above posters...

however the fish kind of looks like a s. gibbus to me... However they only come from one river and are very rare in the hobby and without knowing the collection point, I would have to go with a rhombeus.

yeah i noticed the elongated body too but you know some people are short some are fat some are tall some are skinny... some rhoms are long some have high backs. Just different breeding populations, maybe a few genetically different species maybe.
 
:jaw-dropp you have rare type rhom very original nice look but like what everyone said you cant know for sure very good lookin though what size may i ask:headbang2
 
Thanks a lot guys. I've been scratching my head for moths to decide if it's even a Rhom or not. I believe the guy at the pet store said it was caught in Peru. I'll do some more research

-Matt
 
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