ID This Asian Aro

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Kolossus

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Aro experts, please help me ID this arowana from a zoo in Germany...

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The youtube video isn't working so here is the url...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSJFR9cxaZc
 
LBathory;4377774; said:
not 100% but I would say green or banjar red.
Koji would know for sure.

I'm thinking banjar red too. They sometimes have the yellow tail tips unlike the greens right?
 
I agree with the above posters. That guy takes some great videos!
 
Some may call it banjar red, grade 1.5 red or even grade 2 red. Usually these specimen will have reddish finnage like a grade 1 super red. But as they grow bigger they will lost these redness and turn yellowish. In some better specimen, they will develop into orangish colouration on their finnage and also some nice purplish markings on their scales.
 
Koji;4379600; said:
Some may call it banjar red, grade 1.5 red or even grade 2 red. Usually these specimen will have reddish finnage like a grade 1 super red. But as they grow bigger they will lost these redness and turn yellowish. In some better specimen, they will develop into orangish colouration on their finnage and also some nice purplish markings on their scales.

Just the man I was waiting for:D. I've seen some smaller specimens coined "banjar red" as well with the yellow tail. Is the yellow tail on the banjar reds, even at a young age, not as common as I suspect?
 
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