F1 Paratheraps Guttulatum "Rio Histex"
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About 4". Can't really sex them yet but I believe the one to the right and bottom are pics of the female.
Even the guys on CRC have no real answers that I could sift out. Until there is something more definitive I'll just call them what the seller sold them to me as. Someone was calling them Vieja over there and they don't look Vieja to me. This family is a mess along with Paratheraps. The one thing I'm sure of is that they aren't hybrids.....well I'm pretty sure LOL.
What do you think?
What do you think?
NorCaliCichlids;4028845; said:
Haha! Figuring all this out is part of the fun!
Personally, I don't care if gutt is the right or wrong thing to call them as long as we all know what we are referring to.
These gutts, zons, harts, etc. are so confusing. Keeping them separate by collection point is enough for me. I don't really care what some ichthyologist decides to call them THIS week!
There was a nice Paratheraps fish at the LFS that I'd been watching for months. I couldn't figure out what it was (it was listed as fenestratus from DCT, but I think the LFS kids just mis-IDed them after having moving the around for months and months). I never could determine what it was, but today it was gone! GRRRRRRR! At least there are a couple of others (though smaller and not as nice). The fish had a sort of golden or coppery sheen to its head and back, one longitudinal bar, and yellow eyes.
Thoughts or guesses?
From what I've gathered/read, since they are no longer found in the original location of guttulatus per the species description ... we will never know if the look a likes found in other locations actually are guttulatus or not.
Thus it would not be unheard of to call them cf. guttulatus ...
Thus it would not be unheard of to call them cf. guttulatus ...
Sounds like a guttulatum to me. LFS up here has fenestratum listed as bifa and bifa listed as guttulatum. LFS screw ups happen all the time. I'll just refer to them by collection point.