Help with I.D. rhom or spilo

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cepon3;3671927; said:
Not the cohab. I had mcluvin, or my brandtii for 2 years. In the 2 years I had him he grew only one inch. So if I go by the ratio of time to inches my boy was an old man. Things actually were going very well between the two of them, but seemingly out of the blue he lost his fire.. I seperated them and over the course of the next couple of weeks he stopped smashing the glass when I was near his tank which slowly turned to him not bothering with his food. All his water parameters were the same and all was well. I guess it was his time to pass. I have since then donated the smaller brandtii to a friend of mine and retired from piranha keeping.
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RIP McLuvin...:rip
 
cepon3;3671975; said:
If anyone can eat more then 3 full size bananas they are an animal.. I can't even picture that tasting good after the second
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I once had a banana split that had 4 whole bananas in it...plus chopped bananas as one of the toppings (also had 6 scoops each of chocolate, vanilla and strawberry ice cream). I was like 13, i remember you got a prize if you eat the whole thing on your own and were able to keep it down. I remember finishing the last banana since i saved them for last and a buddy "patting" me on the stomach to say good job....you can figure out the rest.

So i'd say 3 for your average homo sapien
 
Diogenes;3671874; said:
I hate to jump in the middle of this because a) I dislike interweb drama, and b) both of you guys are my homies, but...

there is some legitimacy to what OH is claiming. Cepon is right, all serras are fin/scale eaters, but sanchezi's subsist primarily off of shoals of RBP's in the wild. RBP fins constitute the bulk of their diets and they are obligatory fin eaters.

on the flip side of that coin...it's a poor method for making a species identification.

OP post some scutes and we'll settle this once and for all before it gets out of hand.
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I'd never argue over something so simple. On one hand I believe in my theory almost enough to bank on it but realistically nobody should/could label a species by if or not it eats only tails.

I've had a few small Rhoms that seemed to prefer the tail over a body but they'd eventually eat the entire fish or everything but the head. I will bet $1000 cash money right now that if I put 12 Comets in my Sanchezi tank after a week there'd be 12 Comets minus all their tails.

Looking at the first picture, the scutes seem to be uneven which would pin it as a Sanchezi.

We just need better pics.

BTW,
How have things been going?
 
Ohio Entusiast;3671989; said:
I'd never argue over something so simple. On one hand I believe in my theory almost enough to bank on it but realistically nobody should/could label a species by if or not it eats only tails.

I've had a few small Rhoms that seemed to prefer the tail over a body but they'd eventually eat the entire fish or everything but the head. I will bet $1000 cash money right now that if I put 12 Comets in my Sanchezi tank after a week there'd be 12 Comets minus all their tails.

Looking at the first picture, the scutes seem to be uneven which would pin it as a Sanchezi.

We just need better pics.

BTW,
How have things been going?
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Oh pretty good. About to graduate in like two weeks. Pulled my grades out of the gutter. Got a B going into the final. Class is exhausting. I never want to step foot on an OB floor in a professional capacity ever again. I did help deliver a few new members of the F1 generation however. Through the (I hate censoring anatomical terms) "natural birth canal", and I did a couple of C-sections. I thought it was really cool watching my fish breed, but trying to articulate what it's like to participate in the miracle of human child birth kind of makes you realize how flimsy these symbols we call words really are. Birth was about the only really cool thing though, the rest of the class was a nightmare, especially being a guy. That is one aspect of life that is fiercely guarded by those with double X chromosomes. It's almost over. I feel like a marathon runner crawling across the finish line, and I've still got to finish writing my commencement speech. Overall though can't complain.

and best of all I've got a brand spanking new tank setup just waiting to be put together! :headbang2
 
and I heard it's gonna be planted :) have you decide going SA or SEA?
I only took a peek during my wife's C-section, if I didn't have to report back to her how our new born son was doing I'd spend more time and check out her inner :)
 
jp80911;3672136; said:
and I heard it's gonna be planted :) have you decide going SA or SEA?
I only took a peek during my wife's C-section, if I didn't have to report back to her how our new born son was doing I'd spend more time and check out her inner :)
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I haven't. Still vacillating. Today it's SA. I'm trying to decide what to stock it with. SA fish are cooler, SEA plants are cooler, and I can keep shrimp and it will still be biotope. That's actually the subject of another thread i need to make in the cichlid section.
 
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