Help Needed to Identify Genus of my Africa Tiger Fish

[redeyeraj]

Hi All,

I recently acquired two African Tiger Fish one is supposed to be a Vittatus & the other a Goliath, but im not so sure now after reading the MFK African Tiger Fish Guide

African Tiger Fish (Hydrocynus) ID and Care Guide 3.0

A Guide to the Care and ID of African Tiger Fish (Hydrocynus) 3.0 2.0 update- complete rewrite for both readability and depth of information. 2.1 update- minor updates to Suggested Reading. 2.2 update- Sweeping format changes, updated data that's recently become available, reduced image count...

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Can one of the ATF Jedi Masters please tell me if i have the correct Genus of ATF.

Any help would be greatly appreciated


Below is supposed to be a Vittatus



Below is supposed to be a Goliath

 

[Jiyowel]

Both vatfs

 

[redeyeraj]

Both vatfs

Thank You Sir,

 

[Fishman Dave]

Interesting, I know nothing about tiger fish but one looked to have a different tail shape to the other as well as a shorter head/space between the eye and the jaw to me?

 

[redeyeraj]

funny thing is after reading the guide for atf I was even more confused. What should I be looking for when selecting a gatf

 

[Simonas]

I am no expert but neither look like a young Goliath as they always look a more shiny silver. They look like my Vittatus did when it was young which also got confised with Forksheli

 

[jjohnwm]

Aren't all African Tiger Fish the same genus (Hydrocynus)?

 

[redeyeraj]

Hi all
This is an update on my tiger fish as I was recently looking at pictures of the forskalii species of tiger fish and noticed that they looked more similar to that species than the images if vittatus. just double checking that they are vittatus

 

[redeyeraj]

Bump

 

[kno4te]

Lean toward vitatus but not an expert. See what Jiyowel thinks about it.