My Jaguars

[Andri Pogo]

Bought 6 small Dovii´s two months ago and after i posted pics of them here they turned out to be Jaguars.
Wanted to raise a beautiful male dovii so i was a little disappointed.
They have been sharing a tank with my Three-Toed Amphiuma Salamander and went from 6 to 4.
So having them around for those two months i started liking them and yesterday i put them in another tank and im gonna see how they grow
The salamander tank was a little colder, around 23°C/73°F and werent fed much, the new tank is 27°C/80°F and they will be fed more.
Those 3 tanks (salamander, dovii+lungfish, jaguar) are in a rack in my lobby, they are all 125x30x30cm/4x1x1' and are, of course, growout tanks.
I still bought a male dovii though, here is his thread

but on with the Jags, here are pics!

when i first got them, all under 2"








And these are new, this one got chopped on by the salamander but got away:




And i will keep posting pics since their markings are getting more clear and i want to know how the male/female ratio is.

 

[Hawkfish3.0]

I wouldn't say that they're not jags, but something looks funny about them...

Keep us posted!

 

[Andri Pogo]

hehe yeah im not 100% sure since im no parachromis expert...
the store imported them as doviis, but everybody have been saying their jags lately.

heres a little video of them from when i got them:

 

[kendog1]

they look like jags, but cut none the less

 

[Andri Pogo]

what do you mean by cut? many generations from wild caught ?

 

[---XR---]

what do you mean by cut? many generations from wild caught ?

cute..., these these are 100% mangs..

 

[---XR---]

what do you mean by cut? many generations from wild caught ?

FYI- no way to tell that without knowing the parents generation, which because of the fact you got it from a LFS- suggests these fishes family has been in captivity for a long while.

though with many fish there can be visual triats that can distinguish a WC fish to that of a captive raise speciemen. such as female jaguars from niceragua or florida- most of the time 85-90%, have deep red eyes, and are VERY light shaded. But don't count your money on being able to distinguish all generations of jaguars by this..it's just something i have found through much experience with the species, F0,F1,F2, etc..

 

[Andri Pogo]

since i put them up in their own tank their color is getting much better!

 

[Cross127]

Not bad coloring up nicely now. XR is correct they are 100% manny just so far back from wild genes as it goes. Although XR the only way to judge if they are captives the generations have to be in the 3-5's to notice changes that come through. To tell wild from captive I use the old red sheen trick. Wild mannies will have a very prominant red sheen on them in lower light or at certain angles this coloration begins to diminsh after being born under flourescents or bright artificial light. Same on the fins if there is blue and red mixed with in then more likely it's a wild manny.

 

[Andri Pogo]

out of the 4 i had, i think there has formed a pair. one was killed and another is scared... The pair (?) is showing great colors.