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Now what exactly is the difference between Indos and wide bars? Is it because the stripe right before the caudal fin is complete? That is the only difference Im seeing.
Okay, I can't figure this out. I thought there was 5 different Dats:
ST- Siamese tiger (wide bar)
IT- Indonesion tiger (four bar?)
NTT- Northern Thailand Tiger (thin bar)
NGT- New Guinea Tiger (we all know this one)
AT- American Tiger (silver)
Here is were I am coming up with this.http://www.fishyou.com/fish-tiger.php (scroll down the page and you'll see the chart)
If you use this chart that fish would be Id'ed as a ST(wide) or a NTT(thin). I am leaning tward wide bar becuase of the small band count and broadness of the bands. What do you guys think? Is this wrong or what?
ST- Siamese tiger (wide bar)
IT- Indonesion tiger (four bar?)
NTT- Northern Thailand Tiger (thin bar)
NGT- New Guinea Tiger (we all know this one)
AT- American Tiger (silver)
Here is were I am coming up with this.http://www.fishyou.com/fish-tiger.php (scroll down the page and you'll see the chart)
If you use this chart that fish would be Id'ed as a ST(wide) or a NTT(thin). I am leaning tward wide bar becuase of the small band count and broadness of the bands. What do you guys think? Is this wrong or what?
I think one of the best ways to ID is by looking at the bars on the caudal peduncle (just before the tail. Even then it's never a definite.
Here's one of mine which is tricky to ID
I think it's a Weirdbar dat!
Either way yours is a beauty!
Here's one of mine which is tricky to ID
I think it's a Weirdbar dat!
Either way yours is a beauty!
Acording to the link posted if you ONLY look at the two bars that are COMPLETLY on the caudle peduncle as some one else called it, it looks to be like a wide bar as the inward most bar (towards the body) is significantly wider then the other one like as would be in D. Pulcher instead of similiar in size as suggested by the drawing of the Indo. Now if you look at the next bar right before the caudal peduncle it is complete like a D. Microlepis would be. However, the number of bars and size/shape of the bars is more like a widebar, again, according to this diagram. Actually if you dont count the two bars on the face of either dat (over the gill cover and eye) and not the bars on the cadual peduncle wide bars have 2 1/2 bars because the one just before the cadual peduncle is incomplete, while an indo has four complete bars....mine has three!
So with two traits pointing to pulcher and one towards Indo how can one be so sure. Is the fact that the bar right before the cadual puduncle the only difference in the two species? Also can an Indo have 3 bars instead of four but a widebar cant have 3 instead of 2 1/2?
So with two traits pointing to pulcher and one towards Indo how can one be so sure. Is the fact that the bar right before the cadual puduncle the only difference in the two species? Also can an Indo have 3 bars instead of four but a widebar cant have 3 instead of 2 1/2?