gold saum scale pattern??

[mbunafishkeeper]

ive noticed in all of the juvy goldsaums ive seen in shops, there scale patterns are not full lines, like 1 scale is out of line or something, now ive seen this in all the ones ive looked at properly but not seen it in any adults.

do they grow out of this??


any1 got pics of there juvy like this and then a shot of it now??

thanks

howard

 

[Mad About Cichlids]

No idea, can you get some pix?

 

[mbunafishkeeper]

not of my fish... just i seen a pic of 1 on here like it aswell.. and the others are down the LFS. my fish has like 3 scales out of line but it will be hard to get pics as he's like 3"

 

[Mad About Cichlids]

Probably from inbreeding but who knows. Not sure if I have seen anything that like it before, even on other fishes.

 

[mbunafishkeeper]

ill try to get a pic.

 

[mbunafishkeeper]

pics. you notice on the back half of his body look closely at the scales around the middle of his boddy closer to the tail.

 

[Eläköön]

heres mine
in date order from small-medium-Large

 

[jcardona1]

that this is a BEAST! very nice

 

[mbunafishkeeper]

heres mine
in date order from small-medium-Large

as a juvy did he have scales out of place? very nice fish btw!

 

[mbunafishkeeper]

circled in RED!