You're taking what I said out of context. I'm not talking at all about where a vendor says a fish is from. If vendor john doe says fish is from rio chimichanga, fine. That's all we have to go off. If it's a reputable vendor, I have no problem believing what they say.fish junkie;4911131;4911131 said:So then it would be preposterous for a person to say that they collected a bug on my back yard fence and note for further research that it was collected from my back yard fence or to advertise the bug for sale by saying i caught this bug on fish junkies back yard fence ? That i disagree with completely . Thats how scientists classify and reclassify things when they notice a variance .
However Jose ive read your posts and i know you've done your homework especially with the orinos so with all due respect, my fish were purchased from a reputable vendor as wild caught Rio meta orinos .
So lets just hope that the vendors are being legit and actually have what they advertise because honestly none of us will ever know unless we pull it from the river ourselves . And until such a time that its proven we cant trust our vendors my fish are rio meta orinos and coolermasters fish appear to look like them .
in all honesty they could all be farm raised in florida who knows .
I'm talking about when a picture is posted of an orino from an unknown source, and folks say with reasonable certainty that's it's from rio chimichanga. I don't care how much of an expert you think you are, you simply cannot make that assumption. We all know how varied orinos can be. If you spend some time looking at south american fishing forums, you'll see that orinos can vary greatly. I've seen pics of fishing trips where they were fishing in the same spot, and each orino they caught looked totally different from the last. That is why I say trying to guess which river the fish is from is totally futile.
From the older threads, you'll see several references to scientific studies that show that there are basically 3 types of orinos, based on their location:
1. Rio Orinoco and its drainages
2. Casiquare canal
3. Rio Negro and its drainages
That's it, and that's all there is to it really.