for the orino lovers......

[X-Tank]

wow
You just summarized everything an orino keeper needs to know.
It seems like a short post, but I bet it took hours of reading and researching to get to this far.
Thanks for sharing.

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.

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

 

[jcardona1]

wow
You just summarized everything an orino keeper needs to know.
It seems like a short post, but I bet it took hours of reading and researching to get to this far.
Thanks for sharing.

thanks James yeah its brief but it gets to the point. at the end of the day, the only answer is that there is NO ANSWER in my relentless pursuit of my orinocensis passion, i have spent lots of time going through different websites and forums looking at fishing pics and seeing what is caught. beacause in reality, the people that have the most exposure and knowledge about these fish is not fishkeepers in the states or exporters or importers, its the fisherman and sports fishers that are actually seeing these guys and where they come from.

yeah there are those actual biologist and scientist that write these excellent studies, but they only spend a limited amount of time out there. the locals and natives LIVE THIS EVERYDAY.

and about the whole river system, lots of folks will always ask for the river that a fish was collected from. you gotta keep in mind that were not only talking about rivers. there are TONS of drainages, canals, ditches, ponds, lakes, reservoirs, etc etc. lots of these fish are being caught in small inland bodies of water, not necessarily the large rivers that were used to hearing. so, who knows where the orinos in our tanks come from.

even the Rio Metas that were recently imported; these could have been from a small side shoot of the rio meta, or even the orinoco because the Rio Meta is actually branches off the Orinoco.

so again, the only answer is that there is no answer. until i live out my dream of going to south america and fishing for pbass all over the continent till i get sick of pbass, this will have to do

 

[Quiet Storm]

 

[Superlaz]

I see dinner...

 

[haynchinook334]

Looks Like soup in there new futrue.

 

[tourdeforce1]

I hope not soup. I feel like fish and chips.