Got another tsn!!

[dragonsong]

Picked up my 2nd tsn today, I think it's either a subspecies or a different gender than my other one...slightly darker and her whiskers are solid black instead of striped like my other shovelnose. Also seems much more active too, so hopefully she will teach the other one to eat properly. No fin-nipping or chasing from my rtc at all, guess he's ok with the tsn invasion.

First pic is my original tsn, so you can see his stripey whiskers, then some single pix of the new one, along with some "togetherness" pix. Last pic is also of my original tsn.

Just wondering, anyone else have a tsn with different colored whiskers?

 

[Diskboy12]

Nice pickup, I plan to get a TSN soon.

 

[Wet Whiskers]

Huh! The only other time I've seen striped whiskers on TSN was actually on a MarblexTSN.

 

[dragonsong]

Nice pickup, I plan to get a TSN soon.

Awesome They are much more finicky than rtcs (at this size), I have to feed mine only after the redtail is full and not cruising around because he will steal the tsn's bloodworms.

Huh! The only other time I've seen striped whiskers on TSN was actually on a MarblexTSN.

I'm sooo hoping they stay striped when he's bigger, would be pretty cool. At the very least he's probably a different subspecies than the other.

 

[Wet Whiskers]

I'm sooo hoping they stay striped when he's bigger, would be pretty cool. At the very least he's probably a different subspecies than the other.

That would be SOO awesome!

 

[UncleClyde]

He must have a hybrid somewhere way back in his family tree. I've been raising TSNs for years and I've never seen stripped whiskers on a purebred. I did have one with a few little spots, but they basically dissappeared when he reached about 10". I hope yours grows out and keeps them stripes. You'd have one hell of a unique fish there.

 

[I<3fish]

He must have a hybrid somewhere way back in his family tree. I've been raising TSNs for years and I've never seen stripped whiskers on a purebred. I did have one with a few little spots, but they basically dissappeared when he reached about 10". I hope yours grows out and keeps them stripes. You'd have one hell of a unique fish there.

I have seen a few like that. And I am for sure that fish is a pure Pseudoplatystoma sp. , not a hybrid, not even hybrid genes.

 

[UncleClyde]

I have seen a few like that. And I am for sure that fish is a pure Pseudoplatystoma sp. , not a hybrid, not even hybrid genes.

Did they keep the stripes?

 

[Wet Whiskers]

I have seen a few like that. And I am for sure that fish is a pure Pseudoplatystoma sp. , not a hybrid, not even hybrid genes.

That's what I was thinking. I always had thought the striped whiskers on the hybrids specifically came from the other half, not the tsn. Now it makes me think that either on of the species of tsn have striped whiskers (at least as juvies) or there is some recessive gene or it requires a double dominant gene (or something like that).

 

[dragonsong]

That's what I was thinking. I always had thought the striped whiskers on the hybrids specifically came from the other half, not the tsn. Now it makes me think that either on of the species of tsn have striped whiskers (at least as juvies) or there is some recessive gene or it requires a double dominant gene (or something like that).

I think it may be a common trait at this lfs tho, they only ordered the 2 tsns ever (for me), and I just checked the new one's whiskers and she has one pair of striped on her bottom jaw. Must be some funky genes in there like you said...recessive or codominant or something...