Ia this a Geophagus Sveni?

[G8zzaj]

Hi Everyone,

going to be picking these up next week and wanted to confirm they are Geo Sveni please?

 

[G8zzaj]

This s the picture, it wouldn't let me upload with original message from my phone.

 

[phreeflow]

Doesn’t look like a Sveni…maybe altrifrons or surinamensis? Here’s mine for comparison..I just did a big feeding so ignore the particles in the water

 

[illumnae]

Looks like an altifrons based on the small dot on the flank

 

[neutrino]

Could be altifrons, but how big are they? The spot on sveni starts out small ime, especially when faded a bit. Geo altifrons are nice fish, beautiful from some locations (neambi is a very similar species). As for surinamensis, right from the start it's highly unlikely for 99% of geo Id posts, and 99.9% of people who think they have surinamensis have something else, often abalios. Other fish are commonly mislabeled as surinamensis, but the actual Geophagus surinamensis is extremely rare in the hobby, usually the only way to get them is the rare cases when they (or their offspring) have been distributed by someone who collected them in the wild-- in other words they're not really exported.

 

[G8zzaj]

Thanks for the replies everyone,

The fish are about 4 inches in length.

When you say they are faded, do they look stressed/in poor health?

I'm picking them up from a fish keeper not a LFS

 

[phreeflow]

They should be more colored up than that at 4” if they are Sveni. The pic in the previous post are Sveni from Rio Parana. This one is from Rio Araguaia. Not as colorful but still more so than the ones you’re thinking of getting. Can you ask the seller for more pics?

 

[Kevin@TUIC]

Could be altifrons, but how big are they? The spot on sveni starts out small ime, especially when faded a bit. Geo altifrons are nice fish, beautiful from some locations (neambi is a very similar species). As for surinamensis, right from the start it's highly unlikely for 99% of geo Id posts, and 99.9% of people who think they have surinamensis have something else, often abalios. Other fish are commonly mislabeled as surinamensis, but the actual Geophagus surinamensis is extremely rare in the hobby, usually the only way to get them is the rare cases when they (or their offspring) have been distributed by someone who collected them in the wild-- in other words they're not really exported.

All of what neutrino stated and I will add that G. surinamensis have striped tails like abalios. Your fish looks to be either altifrons or neambi. Origin would determine which of the two. more than likely it is altifrons. I actualy l do not really know of anyone else that imports neambi beside me lol.

 

[neutrino]

The fish are about 4 inches in length.

When you say they are faded, do they look stressed/in poor health?

Perfectly normal for geos to darken or fade their spots according to mood. Agree that by 4" they'd look more clearly sveni, so (as Kevin already stated ) the small spot likely means altifrons.