I.D this please
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It does look like a blue acara in some ways but usually it'd have a black cheek marking and a more pronounced mid lateral spot. Once he settles in and his stress coloration is gone it may be more clear. Still, something about the shape is off... then again, with tank-bred acaras, you do find oddly shaped and colored individuals sometimes.
I have foudn that the mid lateral spot varies greatly on their mood. That picture of mine was my tank boss when he was younger. When he was upset with things, that line ran from his eye to the end of his dorsal. As he got older and more proud.. that line disappeared completely and he had that solid mark in the middle.. it's really evident in the 2nd of one of the last update videos I posted before I had to rehome him due to his spike in aggression towards the rh taps when they bred. I don't recall him, or any of the other 5's having the black cheek marking you're referring to.
The group of 6 I got came from a fish farm in south florida I believe. I wonder if it's possible that certain characteristics of blue acara's have been bred-out in some of the more recent farm raised fish.
I think you're right though, OPs fish is seriously stressed and it may be a few weeks before we see what his true potential is. He looks great though aside from the stress.
The group of 6 I got came from a fish farm in south florida I believe. I wonder if it's possible that certain characteristics of blue acara's have been bred-out in some of the more recent farm raised fish.
I think you're right though, OPs fish is seriously stressed and it may be a few weeks before we see what his true potential is. He looks great though aside from the stress.
I'm pretty sure it's not a blue acara. The blue acara has a black spot on the middle of his body isn't in my guy, he has more of a straight black line all the way across with vertical-ish black bars
He hasn't colored up much more. Only difference from yesterday is the black bars are more visible now
Yes, that's why I said he looked like my ba's when they were stressed out. You just repeated what I said regarding his lack of solid spot and changing vertical bars. Only way to know for certain is for him to settle in more. It could take a few days or few weeks. When I get back to a pc I'll see if I can get some more pics dug up for reference. Acaras change their patterns greatly depending on their current mood/temperment.
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I'm not saying it is or isn't a blue acara; I'm just saying it has incredibly strong similarities/resemblance to my former blue acaras. Op's fish looks malnourished and stressed in the photos provided. In a few days/weeks giving a better ID would be easier, I feel. The two pictures below are of the same fish. In the upper, you can see how the horizontal bar faded out in the 2nd pic and the black spot became more dominant. In one of my videos... the bar has completely disappeared from the same fish and he is all vertical bars + black midlateral spot. 2 of my 6 BA's were quite oddly shaped to the other 4, so in my eye, that's why I wouldn't disqualify the OP's fish as a Blue Acara.
Ryansmith suggested Bujurquina. I don't really see this as there is a) a lot more yellow in those fish and b) their horizontal bar only goes maybe 1/3 down their midline. (Unless there is yellow on OP's fish in that pic and I am just colorblind and cannot see it which wouldn't be a first time)
Hope the OP posts a photo update in a few days/weeks when he settles down more and puts on a bit more weight. As Ryansmith suggested and the OP seems to think, the fish is likely a previous tank raised fish if brought in via a tradein and the oddities in body structure could be from malnourished stunting. I'm definitely interested in what it is. Will be following the post.
Ryansmith suggested Bujurquina. I don't really see this as there is a) a lot more yellow in those fish and b) their horizontal bar only goes maybe 1/3 down their midline. (Unless there is yellow on OP's fish in that pic and I am just colorblind and cannot see it which wouldn't be a first time)
Hope the OP posts a photo update in a few days/weeks when he settles down more and puts on a bit more weight. As Ryansmith suggested and the OP seems to think, the fish is likely a previous tank raised fish if brought in via a tradein and the oddities in body structure could be from malnourished stunting. I'm definitely interested in what it is. Will be following the post.
in this video at 1:10 you can see my BA's when I got them, there is no black spot in the midline at this time but some strong horizontal barring with vertical barring. In it you can see a few of the Blue acara have the horizontal bar that runs all the way to the black spot at the tail, which ryansmith was talking about earlier, however there are others where the horizontal bar trails upwards towards the dorsal fin instead, which led to my comment of wondering if farm raised fish have changed in genetics or that BA's have just become hybrids.
I've got several videos documenting them and their changes over the last year before I rehomed them showing atypical forms or just growing in to some frankly odd shapes that no fish should look like unless screwed up genetics wise.(2 of the 6- the other 4 grew in to quite round torpedoes full of aggression you'd be more likely to see in a festae)
[video=youtube;yIm2Dwrc8jc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIm2Dwrc8jc[/video]
I've got several videos documenting them and their changes over the last year before I rehomed them showing atypical forms or just growing in to some frankly odd shapes that no fish should look like unless screwed up genetics wise.(2 of the 6- the other 4 grew in to quite round torpedoes full of aggression you'd be more likely to see in a festae)
[video=youtube;yIm2Dwrc8jc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIm2Dwrc8jc[/video]
He's definitely going to be fully colored within the coming days. He out muscled my green terrors who are a solid3" bigger than him at feeding time today. Fed really well on hikari cichlid bio-gold and carnivores. I would post more pictures but there really isn't much of a difference.
I also called the shop I bought it from and they said all they knew was its a bujurquina, they weren't much help. I guess it narrows down a bit but everyone has already established that so looks like we're still stuck
I also called the shop I bought it from and they said all they knew was its a bujurquina, they weren't much help. I guess it narrows down a bit but everyone has already established that so looks like we're still stuck
