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[Pacheca6211]

Was sold as a silver arowana but once it grew a couple inches a freind had a look and said it was a cherry red arowana. Any idea’s?

 

[aroijuana]

normal silver

 

[Midwater]

Cherry red? All sorts of new names are coming out to sell more fish. But the fish are the same.

 

[Pacheca6211]

normal silver

Thats what i thought. I did some reaserch and silver arowana should be totally silver with slender bodies. I am not in the US. Can that open a possibilty to other types?

 

[Fishman Dave]

One of the last times the term cherry red appears to have been used it was to sell a dyed red silver arrowana. Other than that the cherry red arrowana are not coloured silvers, they are Asian arrowana. I have not heard of them starting to “create” Color morphs of silver arrowana yet but to me this just looks like a young silver with slightly red tints in its scales which some have and others don’t have as prominent and which they very often lose as they grow/age.
Mine in the pond at 18” now looks very blue from above but it’s still a normal silver arrowana.