FISH ID "VIEJA" SP.

[Legomypleco]

I bought this fish as a miscellaneous "Vieja" species. ( I know its not called Vieja anymore). ID PLEASE. Sorry for the bad pics, little bugger would not stay still.

Fish is aprox 1.5 - 2 inches

 

[Legomypleco]

I was hoping breidohri, but I have never seen one this small.

 

[duanes]

Here is a young pair of breidhori to compare, around 3-4"

female left
Their 1" fry

 

[Legomypleco]

so i guess its not breidohri. oh well, thanx for the pics. maybe hybrid.....any help is appreciated

 

[fobrinkle]

Hybrid is my best guess too.

 

[rich_one]

Looks breidohri to me, man.

-Rich

 

[notho2000]

I'm sure it's a Paraneetropus breidohri. The color is accurate and the broken horizontal stripe is typical of juveniles. They will gradually lose it. Here's a pic of one of my males.

 

[Legomypleco]

cool, thanx for replies

 

[decoy50]

It looks like some juvie heterospilus I'm growing out - purple at the throat and in the fins and the dark center line. But that face looks breidhori. In a tank of misc. Vieja its possible its a hybrid. I've also got some briedhori growouts at about 2.5 in and they are showing no color yet.

My vote is heterospilus or hybrid.

 

[Madness]

Heterospila are more round bodied, not long like that. I would say it definitely is Breidohri, but because Breidohri have more of a blunt nose and your pics look like yours come to more of a point, it kind of points me towards hybrid Breidohri / ............. also.

Good luck and put some size on it, it may become more obvious as it gets larger.