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[Peanut_Power]

Noice!! Nice motags!!! Must be awesome to collect them yoursel!

What else did you collect though! Welcome back BTW!

 

[WildCAught]

Here is the Guavina I collected.

Check out the teeth...

 

[Veacane]

Very interesting.

 

[tydus]

Here is the Guavina I collected.

Check out the teeth...

Wow, what is that thing!!! It looks sweet! Sell it to me, lol. Seriously bro.

 

[WildCAught]

HEHE... Let me enjoy it for a while and I'll let you know if it's up for grabs. I don't know what it is other than the common name. Guavina... Google search yielded pacific smalleye croaker. This was caught pretty far inland... the description says they can be freshwater and/or brackish but the picture was slightly off.

Any help?

 

[WildCAught]

Thanks Tyd!
The small RTM I have shows promise of being male. Lets hope in 6 months he wants a little cougar action from the 6 inch female...

I meant FTM. Sorry for the confusion...

Wow... So more people think these are RTM huh?... I ask that voters Please be familiar with the two existing variants before they vote. I've never seen or owned RTM that looked like these. If possible vote and state your opinion. I'm not here to argue but would like to hear valid points.

As far as I know these may be the only Salvadorean Mota's in the U.S. I am 100% certain they are the only ones from this collection site.

 

[Aquamojo]

It's a nicely colored Red Tiger Motaguense. They are endemic to Guatemala as well as a few other areas. Quite often the coloration of a fish can be a reflection of their diet. I don't see anything from the photos that would indicate it being any different from the standard Red Tiger Moto.

I don't know if you've seen the photos, but here's a link to the Cichlid Room Companion. Nine of the photos on that page are of my pair from Rio Blanco in Honduras. That river is know to have RTM that are redder than others.

http://www.cichlidae.com/gallery/species.php?s=227

Nicely colored fish at that. Good luck with it.

 

[WildCAught]

Thanks Mo. Thats the type of info I wanted to hear. I was not aware that there are red tigers in locations other than Rio copan and Rio Blanco in honduras since those are the collection sites most referred to.

I see alot more yellow on it than red though... With the fins being a reddish orange.

The golds I've seen are yellow throughout and the RTMs are red throughout there body as well (striping etc. aside). These are yellow/orange centered with the most intense reddish/orange coloration on the fins and gills/face.

 

[fishfarm]

Nice looking fish, I would call them Red Tigers with collection location, every stream has a different vairent. That may be the most western distribution motoguense has ever been caught. We caught some in the Rio Chuloteca south of Teguesegalpa that had orange females and yellow males, What was surprising was P fredrickstalli occupied the same river. Look at the gill covers on the smaller fish, any spots and it's a male. Keep them divided so she does kill him, I bred all my Parachromis through a eggcrate divider with no problem.
That fish would be a nice addition to the hobby. Ken

 

[thorzep]

Bad ass fish man!