Is this the same type of severum?

[illbethejudge]

I have a few questions.
1) is this the same type of severum ? 1 is super red and the other one has just a couple of red markings.
2) Do i have male and female?
3)Would they breed and if they do should i put them in a separate tank and how big?
4) is it worth breeding them?

 

[Kaia]

I am no expert, but I am a fan, very beautiful fish! They are the same type just different color morphs, sexing can be tricky with severum, so you might get lucky

 

[Kaia]

I have been watching my LFS hoping to find a nice super red, don't see them often around here, my green severum was for sale at a pet store advertised as a "red head" severum. As a baby he was just tan and striped with no way to tell what he was (just guessing mine is a male by the face). Totally my kind of gamble though, so fun to watch the colors come in!

I would guess your super red could be male because of facial markings, but totally guessing.

 

[TwoHedWlf]

Nope, not the same type. You've got a gold and a red spotted or red severum depending on who is coming up with the name...

They do look like male and female though, and probably should breed. I have a gold and a red spotted actually in the tank next to me. They've spent years trying to breed unsuccessfully.

Might have been successful if one of them was a female.

 

[illbethejudge]

I am no expert, but I am a fan, very beautiful fish! They are the same type just different color morphs, sexing can be tricky with severum, so you might get lucky

I read somewhere that males have worm like markings in the face and red one has them and i think some people are able to tell by the form of the fins.

 

[duanes]

If by the same type do you mean "are they are different species?"
They are probably the same species, but they are line-bred (man selected) for color morphs, in the same way koi are koi, yellow oscars and red oscars all A ocellatus, or red guppies are the same as blue guppies, are same as black ones.
They (guppies with guppies , red oscars with yellow, sevs with sevs) can breed because they are the same species, in the spawn, you would end up with some of one color, some of another, some mixed, and some might even resort to the original natural form, in varying degrees.

 

[illbethejudge]

If by the same type do you mean "are they are different species?"
They are probably the same species, but they are line-bred (man selected) for color morphs, in the same way koi are koi, yellow oscars and red oscars all A ocellatus, or red guppies are the same as blue guppies, are same as black ones.
They (guppies with guppies , red oscars with yellow, sevs with sevs) can breed because they are the same species, in the spawn, you would end up with some of one color, some of another, some mixed, and some might even resort to the original natural form, in varying degrees.

yes i meant color. Is it worth breeding them?