Yeah the more I look around the more I see them especially that broken bar in particular. I agree with your assessment too, I find Heros descriptions difficult to follow.
New Sev. Rotkeil?
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Yeah the more I look around the more I see them especially that broken bar in particular. I agree with your assessment too, I find Heros descriptions difficult to follow.
There are multiple red headed (or shouldered, if you prefer) severum types, some rivaling or even surpassing rotkeils. Not all of them are even efasciatus, not to mention efasciatus sp. rotkeils, and to me the 'correct' identity can be confusing, especially considering science hasn't sorted them all out and I've also seen what are clearly different fish called by the same location name. But sp. rotkeils, from Peru, are easy, to me the easiest red headed severum to distinguish by the 8 bars. My take is that, since they haven't been scientifically described yet, you could say this is unofficial, but it's what you see (or what I've seen) in photos and book illustrations specifically describing sp. rotkeil from Peru. I bred rotkeils for a while and always got 8 bars.
Aside from the bars, you be hard pressed to distinguish young rotkeils from common green severums until the rotkeil color comes in, small ones don't have it and development of the red is a gradual process ime.
With the variability of different wild populations, severums have turned out to be more complicated than they used to be.
Aside from the bars, you be hard pressed to distinguish young rotkeils from common green severums until the rotkeil color comes in, small ones don't have it and development of the red is a gradual process ime.
With the variability of different wild populations, severums have turned out to be more complicated than they used to be.
Interesting. When did he have those? I checked and that's not the photo I currently see on his site, which looks like 8 bars. Assuming they were correctly identified, it could be something like 6 barred Cyphotilapia, which can occasionally have an extra bar... or, just to make it more confusing, could there be a nine barred population of Peruvian severums with some red behind the head?
I would love to see an update on your Severum. I'm in a similar predicament at the moment having acquired supposed redhead sevs with 9 bars.
Awesome thank you. Just out of curiosity because I have the patience of a small child. Did it color up?
