Gold Rope

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Erpetoichthys calabaricus

The 'ropefish' or 'reedfish'.

I've had this one for a month or so but haven't shared him. He's about 12" to 13"

His normal color under tank lighting is bright green, but under flash, he shows off this golden yellow:

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Nice Rope, I think they are very underappreciated at MFK.

Using gold in the thread title is a great way to get people wanting to see a color morph into the thread... sort of deceiving! =P

Great fish!
 
Madding;4890625; said:
Nice Rope, I think they are very underappreciated at MFK.

Using gold in the thread title is a great way to get people wanting to see a color morph into the thread... sort of deceiving! =P

Great fish!

Well, you have to admit, you don't see many with this nice color ;)

ISteedman;4890626; said:
I used to have one until my pacu bit him in half. Very dumb though, it was hard to get him to find the food before everyone else ate it up.
I want another one real bad, probably a pair this time, and not in with the pacu.

Live and learn I suppose.
 
I agree about the color. Almost as much yellow as green!
 
Very nice!!! Used to have a golden finlet ropefish before. Lost that one from going inside the sump. Still looking for that particular ropefish. Before when I buy ropefish I always get them in different color tone. From dark greenish brown, dark brown, golden brown and some with a purple tone close to the tail. Not sure if anybody notices this but the only polyptiroid that I noticed that shines a little on the scales are the ropefish and mokelembembe.

here is the picture of my former golden finlet ropefish.
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Nice ropefish. I have a pair of them who show the same colour in my tank. I believe they are suppose to be this colour, but most of the them look brown or bronze colour when we purchase them from the LFS.
 
taisho75;4891641; said:
Nice ropefish. I have a pair of them who show the same colour in my tank. I believe they are suppose to be this colour, but most of the them look brown or bronze colour when we purchase them from the LFS.


There is a lot of variation in the color of ropefish.

Here is a pic of my smaller 9" rope, drastically different from the other:

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