New pickup - ID?

[cavamart]

I breed the Chetumalensis collected from primarypredator on the link above. Your pictures looks like a cutteri variant or possible mix. Rio Chahal Chets are more grey/purple based and don't show the yellow like above. This strain also has a distinctive white "shoulder" that I haven't witnessed in any other adult Crypto types. Below are an adult pair showing different colors/moods. The red glows when breeding.

 

[BC in SK]

I blew the pictures up 4x, and one can see in the third picture, as well as the reflection in the glass in the first picture, that the fish in question clearly has the mouth/snout of a Paraneetroplus species. http://

That is an odd mouth/ snout on this fish, but looking at more pictures I now see that I am clearly wrong. The blue eye simply does not fit with P. bulleri. Some kind of C. spilirum/cutteri.

 

[jgentry]

I breed the Chetumalensis collected from primarypredator on the link above. Your pictures looks like a cutteri variant or possible mix. Rio Chahal Chets are more grey/purple based and don't show the yellow like above. This strain also has a distinctive white "shoulder" that I haven't witnessed in any other adult Crypto types. Below are an adult pair showing different colors/moods. The red glows when breeding.

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Your probably right cavamart. I doubt a chet would just show up at a petstore. Probably some odd coloration on a male cutteri. Although I have never seen one colored like that with all of that red. Although my male chets when not in a tank with a female seem to take on a coloration much more like a cutteri. Have you kept a male without a female in the tank? Just wondering if you have noticed this or not.

Conner, my chet spawns are still very small and will not be big enough to sell until mid winter. Cavamart still has some that are good sized though. PM him and he will hook you up. He has excellent fish.

 

[elting44]

Wow, lots of good info in this thread,

Has the fish in question's coloration changed now that it has been acclimated/calmed down, post some more pics.

Is it possible that it is a C.cutteri x P.bulleri hyrbid, or would the likelihood of the two mentioned genus hyrbidization be unlikely? I know extremely little about either sp.

 

[Conner]

Your probably right cavamart. I doubt a chet would just show up at a petstore. Probably some odd coloration on a male cutteri. Although I have never seen one colored like that with all of that red. Although my male chets when not in a tank with a female seem to take on a coloration much more like a cutteri. Have you kept a male without a female in the tank? Just wondering if you have noticed this or not.

Conner, my chet spawns are still very small and will not be big enough to sell until mid winter. Cavamart still has some that are good sized though. PM him and he will hook you up. He has excellent fish.

Remember, this was a store trade-in, not something the store purchased through a supplier, so the possibility it there for something more out of the ordinary.

However, I'll bow down to you guys' expertise on this one. I just know that it was a pretty fish that I would have liked to keep...

 

[Conner]

Wow, lots of good info in this thread,

Has the fish in question's coloration changed now that it has been acclimated/calmed down, post some more pics.

Is it possible that it is a C.cutteri x P.bulleri hyrbid, or would the likelihood of the two mentioned genus hyrbidization be unlikely? I know extremely little about either sp.

Unfortunately the fish didn't survive. What was otherwise a completely peaceful tank apparently turned on this fish on the second night and he was dead when i got home this morning. He was the second biggest fish in the tank too...