Is a 240 too small for a Jardini?

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drgnfrc13;4312442; said:
Uh, jars come in four colors: dark brown, regular brown, light brown, or one of those shades with a small amount of red petterning. Silvers have highly varying colors (that is until they get to around 30"+). My silver is currently at about 24" and it has many different shades of green, blue, turquoise, and red (as well as silver, but that one's obvious). The only problem with silver aros' coloration is that it can be difficult to get pics of (most of the time, my pics either show the red or the green/blue, but rarely both).
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Oh I see, also I didn't mean red-brown as in red and brown scales. Sorry I meant red dots. If it were red, which I wish it was, it'd be more like an asian arowana. And I know what you mean with silvers, as juveniles they have different shades along their body and the signature blueish teal area behind it's gills. They also tend to have red sails and fins. Sadly the colors go away as adults and they become less colorful. In the end I'd say jardini's are more colorful.
 
HighBackRTG;4312444; said:
Here's your red-brown
http://www.freshwaterstingray.nl/Arowana/Foto%27s/Haiko%20artikel/Jardini.JPG
http://www.df6na.de/df6na/Fische/freshwater/jpg/jardini18.jpg
http://img83.imageshack.us/i/jardini119ua.jpg/

Here's your platinum
http://www.aqua-material.co.jp/uploaded/gallery2-1205571244.jpg

Here's your Black
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43126

Here's your dark-green
http://media.photobucket.com/image/dark green jardini/XBlackScreamsX/fish866copy.jpg
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Well, it looks to me like the "dark-green" has exactly the same coloration as the "red-brown", but the photographer didn't have an appropriate white-balance set on his camera (either a result of inexperience, or intentional manipulation of the colors displayed in the picture). Also, I'm pretty sure the "black" form is just a pigment mutation.
 
HighBackRTG;4312463; said:
Oh I see, also I didn't mean red-brown as in red and brown scales. Sorry I meant red dots. If it were red, which I wish it was, it'd be more like an asian arowana. And I know what you mean with silvers, as juveniles they have different shades along their body and the signature blueish teal area behind it's gills. They also tend to have red sails and fins. Sadly the colors go away as adults and they become less colorful. In the end I'd say jardini's are more colorful.
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I guess it just depends on whether you prefer brown or silver (but I'd think most fishkeepers would go with the latter).
 
drgnfrc13;4312476; said:
Well, it looks to me like the "dark-green" has exactly the same coloration as the "red-brown", but the photographer didn't have an appropriate white-balance set on his camera (either a result of inexperience, or intentional manipulation of the colors displayed in the picture). Also, I'm pretty sure the "black" form is just a pigment mutation.
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Pigment mutation or not it's still a viable color that exists. Also it's not limited to that one fish, there are a few that exist. Also not to double post as regards to your line about fish keepers preferring the latter color (being silver). That's all up to debate. Maybe we should start a poll :D.
 
HighBackRTG;4312502; said:
Pigment mutation or not it's still a viable color that exists. Also it's not limited to that one fish, there are a few that exist. Also not to double post as regards to your line about fish keepers preferring the latter color (being silver). That's all up to debate. Maybe we should start a poll :D.
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In that case, let's also count hypomelanism, xanthism, axanthism, piebald, albinism, amelanism, anerythristism etc. as colorations as well. Going by that logic, every animal comes in a pretty wide variety of colors, don't they? :grinno:
 
drgnfrc13;4312518; said:
In that case, let's also count hypomelanism, xanthism, axanthism, piebald, albinism, etc. as colorations as well. Going by that logic, every animal comes in a pretty wide variety of colors, don't they? :grinno:
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I'm not sure about all of the above conditions but I'd have to say I've seen more of the black variation than any of the above. :confused:
 
HighBackRTG;4312543; said:
I'm not sure about all of the above conditions but I'd have to say I've seen more of the black variation than any of the above. :confused:
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I also added a few others after I posted the version you quoted. ;)

Just because one mutation is more common than another, doesn't mean you can count it as a natural color (and by "natural" I don't mean occuring in nature, I mean the fish's regular pigmentation) An example of this is that leucism is much more common in senegal bichirs than melanism, but both are still just mutations, not regular variation in color (as in regional variants).

And if you care to find out more about the mutations I posted, here's a link that lists them w/ their definitions: http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1742460&postcount=9
 
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Jardini can be risky with tankmates and the most often times that I see them coexisting is the JDM tanks that there are a ton of fish in so that it cannot target specific fish. My specific Jar terrorized silver dollars and bit gars tails. I think it could work with bottom dwellers more so than with anything else. Inactivity is a key point with tankmates.

Silver and black are the most peaceful. Your tank should be fine as far as space goes.
 
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