Heros Notatus
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When I bred my wild pair, the F1s all showed spots on their gills and faces at about 1 - 2". These faded on the females not long after. Usually by 3 - 4" you will have a pretty good idea of the sexes -- males develop the body spotting and females turn a solid green color.
Yea i got mune at 4 inch and already easty to distingish. The male alredy had awsome color, yelloy green and orange aroung his mouth and spots all over, the females green body red bottom fins, well the dominant female. 1 male 3 ladies.
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We originally about a month ago bought 6 young notatus followed by another 4 from another supplier. Then last weekend our lfs had a tank with young sevs labelled as notatus. We had asked them several times before hand if they had notatus on their lists and the last time we asked they said they'd try to source some. They were quite stressed so we couldn't actually identify them either way but we bought one at £18 over twice as much as we paid for the others. So we got it home and within a few hours came to the conclusion that its not a notatus but what looks to be a regular green sev. Needless to say we are well peeved off paying £18 for a 2ins green. So what I'm looking from you guys is verification that what we got is not a notatus, I'll post a pic off it and a couple of pics of the others which we believe to be the genuine thing
One of the first batch
This pic shows 2 of the second batch and the one which we believe to be green
Another one of what we believe to be green
Opinions please
One of the first batch
This pic shows 2 of the second batch and the one which we believe to be green
Another one of what we believe to be green
Opinions please
The first picture is definitely notatus. Here are some of mine when they were small:
The yellow/orange throat will get more pronounced as they grow and the spotting will grow in the males. The females' spots eventually cover over with a dark emerald green color, but they retain the pretty rusty orange color in the throat like the males.
The second two fish definitely look like either H. efasciatus or H. sp. 'rotkeil' fry. The rotkeils often start looking like "turquoise" severums with a nice steely blue color, and then develop a red neck at about 4" or so. Either way, I would keep growing them out if you have the space. Usually when a severum that small shows such nice color, it ends up being a beautiful adult fish. A lot of H. efasciatus young are a drab brown color at a small size, so I'm always surprised to see them showing so much blue when they're little.
The yellow/orange throat will get more pronounced as they grow and the spotting will grow in the males. The females' spots eventually cover over with a dark emerald green color, but they retain the pretty rusty orange color in the throat like the males.
The second two fish definitely look like either H. efasciatus or H. sp. 'rotkeil' fry. The rotkeils often start looking like "turquoise" severums with a nice steely blue color, and then develop a red neck at about 4" or so. Either way, I would keep growing them out if you have the space. Usually when a severum that small shows such nice color, it ends up being a beautiful adult fish. A lot of H. efasciatus young are a drab brown color at a small size, so I'm always surprised to see them showing so much blue when they're little.
As long as we got some notatus we're happy. The rotkeils we'll keep also as we have young from our breeding pair so it'll get some new blood into the group. The last pic is the one we paid £18 for so will maybe have a wodd with our lfs about the price we paid for it. This is a pic of our own young rotkeil
