Meet my new atf

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I'm thinking theres a chance of that...

What kills me is you're posting screencaps of the pics instead of the pics lol. I can't blow them up and see any detail because of that. It's either big eye or batf. I'm leaning toward batf as well, but due to the rarity I want to be extra careful. Any chance you could post the actual pics instead of screen caps?
 
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And fwiw, those distinct white tips aren't a good look for it to be a brevis. That's a big eye thing. All the species can have white tips, but typically big eyes take it to 11.
 

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I'm thinking theres a chance of that...

What kills me is you're posting screencaps of the pics instead of the pics lol. I can't blow them up and see any detail because of that. It's either big eye or batf. I'm leaning toward batf as well, but due to the rarity I want to be extra careful. Any chance you could post the actual pics instead of screen caps?
Ok I lied. This was my friend’s atf hehe
 

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And fwiw, those distinct white tips aren't a good look for it to be a brevis. That's a big eye thing. All the species can have white tips, but typically big eyes take it to 11.
What’s a white tip? Btw can you id my friend’s another atf? It’s my first time to see this atf..

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Can't use the orange color to ID an atf. That dead fish is a regular old vatf, the scale counts have it. Stout vatf is used to explain a fish that is otherwise clearly a varf and which arrives with vatf shipments, but has a scale count that is wrong.

As to the white tips, look at the pelvic a d anal fins of the batf looking fish. Notice how they've got a distinct white tip? All ATF can have this when young, but big eye tend to have it in the most extreme manner. These white deals are what become hooks/streamers.
 
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