Mystery Fish from Gage. What is it??
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Looks like Chuco godmanni...but the face is wrong (should be rounder)...
Here's a big one that I used to have (eating a super worm).
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Matt
Here's a big one that I used to have (eating a super worm).
Matt
I don't think there's anything "weird" about that fish at all. It looks exactly like the regani's i see Rapps carrying, except for the black blotch/stripe is more prominant in your case.
Nitrites, stress, water chemistry in general can impose changes to a fishes appearance. I've seen several different CA/SA swim around with solid black heads and regular colored body, only to change back to the norm once the chemistry is right
Nitrites, stress, water chemistry in general can impose changes to a fishes appearance. I've seen several different CA/SA swim around with solid black heads and regular colored body, only to change back to the norm once the chemistry is right
What's weird is he ordered a bocourti and got this fish, so obviously there was a mix up somewhere.
I'd really doubt that is a bocourti........sure looks like Chuco godmani. Looking at pictures in books and the internet, there are some examples of younger specimens with more pointed snouts like the fish in question; unlike the rounded snout of some mature adults. Chuco intermedium is another possibility. I guess you'll have to grow the fish out a little, then it might be more obvious(?).
Always possible for breeders to get fry mixed up....somehow.
Always possible for breeders to get fry mixed up....somehow.
It's a Chuco godmani. Nothing weird about the body/head shape, they get blockier as they age. Definitely not a bocourti. Not a regani either.
