My first goonch, need an ID plz

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Headbanger: you can't ID bagarius by color and pattern bc they will change depending light, substrate, size etc. 1 of mine started off looking like yours and then changed later and my other was almost completely patternless and now they look almost identical.

Greenrinks: just give it time. At least it's eating.
 
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Aw3s0m3 said:
Headbanger: you can't ID bagarius by color and pattern bc they will change depending light, substrate, size etc. 1 of mine started off looking like yours and then changed later and my other was almost completely patternless and now they look almost identical.
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The ones that you have shared pic of look very much like the ones that come from Indian border touching China.

The ones which have been described as sp.Indochina.

I have seen those specimens as well, with proper collection locality.

Hence my query.
 
I heard from my supplier that the locality of my fish is on the most outer edge of china.. Does that mean it's an sp. indochino has pecs of a b. Bagarius then?
 
They definitely do not. If you look at Liam's indochina it's pectorals are nowhere close to the same length as an HLG
 
What is an HLG???
 
Highland giant. B. bagarius. You also have to remember that a lot of the species ranges overlap so just bc they are found in a certain spot does not mean there's only 1 species there. These guys are extremely confusing when it comes to proper Id
 
Ah right, gotcha. Well I've lowered the heater down to 25 degrees Celsius. Didn't want to let the water dip too cold. It's winter here lol.
 
Still hasn't seen him eat in the past week regardless of temperature drop. If yours has lived in warmer waters without issue, I don't see the reason to dedicate a whole cold water tank if it can fair in moderately warmer waters.
 
We still don't know the long term affects of them being kept in warmer waters cuz they're still relatively new to the hobby. Ik for a fact though that both of mine, even though they're B. bagarius, were caught in warmer waters in Bangladesh in southern India so I believe they're migratory and later on will swim north to the colder waters below the Himalayas where the water is more oxygenated. I've been debating selling their tank mates and removing the heaters that way I can drop my electric bill and see if there's any behavioral changes with these guys in cooler waters.

No need to worry about it not eating. They'll also fast. My larger one is now the smaller bc for the past few months it decided to completely stop eating or eat very little whereas the other continues to be a pig
 
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