for the orino lovers......
- Thread starter Quiet Storm
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either venezuelan or columbian IMO, no way to distinguish between the two. dont look to be rio negro/brazilian to me...
MsMassPoly;3224277; said:
Sorry about that. I agree as well, live fish shots would have been a better option.
jcardona1;3224289; said:
thanks. so the gold spangles inside of the black circles on the side of the body don't mean anything when trying to distinguish between venezuelan or columbian?
not really. have you seen that long Orino ID thread i created? scan thru the pics, youll see orinos from all over south america. out of all those pics, i still cant come up with a concrete way of telling apart orinos from columbia or venezuela, sometimes even brazil. main reason is because of the rio orinoco, where these guys come from.Quiet Storm;3224314;3224314 said:
its a massive river system that runs through venezuela and columbia, and even connects to the rio negro in brazil. plus, there are hundreds of smaller drainages throughout. each collection point shows small differences from another, but there really is nothing you can base an ID off, there are so many differences and variations through this river.
some are green, some are yellow, some have blue fins, some dont, some have circle patterns, some have diamonds, its just endless story of orino variations. unless you know the collection point, youre just chasing a unicorn trying to ID based off how it looks.
the only exception ive found is the orinos from the rio negro, further down into brazil closer to the amazonas. these guys show very distinct traits, like the perfect round ocelli with thick gold rings and the darker, bolder green color
