My jurupari

[DaveB]

It occurred to me that I had the distinction between S. jurupari and S. Leucosticta backwards, and that I think this guy might be an actual jurupari. I suck at photography (I blame the dumb acrylic tank - I'll try to get more) but can anyone tell from these shots?

He's still small so it's harder to tell, but the irridescent specks cover his body but stop before his face, which just sort of has blurry stripes. If he's jurupari and not leucosticta, that'd be cool. But it will also make it damn hard to find a mate. (If I had a mate, I'd know for sure which he is, of course, but I don't, and can't get one without knowing for sure which he is.)

Also, does anyone else think his stomach looks too concave? My girlfriend insists he has a parasite (we had that concave stomach thing going on in my african tank) but I think it's normal. That said, he hasn't grown at all in the past 6 months and my baby orangeheads are almost the same size now.

 

[DaveB]

Found an older shot of him. Back then I had an older leucosticta, and he had the obvious facial markings, like these.

 

[edburress]

I am fairly confident that's a perfect example of a Satanoperca jurupari that has spots on its gill plate. The fact that they are organized in a linear fashion that parallel the snout, do not have any color, and are relatively small in size and few in number. The yellow on the lips and pelvic fins are present on the fish and not just showing up in the image right? That would also be reminescent of S. jurupari.

Maybe the stomach is slightly concave but not to the degree I would be overly worried as long as it eats well, doesnt have clamped fins and is social.

Ed

 

[DaveB]

The yellowing is a main reason I think it is too. I just didn't want to mention it since I figured a lot of the yellowish color I see in photos may just be because of the flash or something. But yeah, definite yellow tinge around the lips, and it is more prominent now than it used to be.

His behavior is and always has been fine, and that's what I've been telling her. Still, given my paranoia about the orangeheads in the tank and their color, I'm always fearful in the back of my mind that something is going on. But every picture and example of geos that I see, except my babies, who are always stuffed full of food, have a small amount of concavity, so I'm not all that worried about it.