Orino Price Check

[oscarfishguy]

orinos are orinos.. some are darker, some are lighter, some have a little more spangling than the next one. i think where they are caught has little to do with that, i think their color is determined genetically depending on who the parents are. and you can quite often find many different colors and different spangling in the same spawn.

there are different species.. like ocellaris, orino, temensis, monoculous.. etc. but all this bahia kelberi vs. kelberi (and i'm not certain that kelberi are anything more than a very goldy colored ocellaris) and rio meta orino vs. rio negra orino vs. generic orino is just hype to get folks to pay more for the same fish.

i love my peacock bass, and i'll ALWAYS have some. but some of this "which river was it collected from" nonsense is just that.

Good point about the parents vs. the river. Makes sense. I would rather offspring from great fish than unknown from a certain collection point.

 

[gangster]

Sub species differ in pattern variation and colors depending on their locale. Some fish of the same sub species are more rare because not all the rivers have such easy access. Look at occelaris. You can get a cheap fl occel that can turn out magnificent. You can also get broko pondo occelaris that come out of suriname. This is the same sub species of cichla but one of the locales has a much stricter policy. Same w/ orino's. Rio meta orino's are located in a river in columbia. Rio negro's are from brazil. Exporting cichla out of brazil is a no go atm. Therefore the cost of a rio negro is much higher. Dont get me wrong....you can have a stunning, "pick of the litter" rio meta look amazing. As well as a a rio negro. That is why you see people buying fish in bulk. So they can have a better chance at getting the "desirable'' fish. So where a fish was collected from does have an impact on value. But it does not neccesarily mean that fish will "look" more desirable.

Look at jcardona's orino thread. Fish of the same sub species can vary quite a bit in pattern when collected from different regions. A rio meta has more diamond occelets. And a rio negro has much more round occelets. Their beauty is in the eye of the fish keeper.

 

[oscarfishguy]

Sub species differ in pattern variation and colors depending on their locale. Some fish of the same sub species are more rare because not all the rivers have such easy access. Look at occelaris. You can get a cheap fl occel that can turn out magnificent. You can also get broko pondo occelaris that come out of suriname. This is the same sub species of cichla but one of the locales has a much stricter policy. Same w/ orino's. Rio meta orino's are located in a river in columbia. Rio negro's are from brazil. Exporting cichla out of brazil is a no go atm. Therefore the cost of a rio negro is much higher. Dont get me wrong....you can have a stunning, "pick of the litter" rio meta look amazing. As well as a a rio negro. That is why you see people buying fish in bulk. So they can have a better chance at getting the "desirable'' fish. So where a fish was collected from does have an impact on value. But it does not neccesarily mean that fish will "look" more desirable.

Look at jcardona's orino thread. Fish of the same sub species can vary quite a bit in pattern when collected from different regions. A rio meta has more diamond occelets. And a rio negro has much more round occelets. Their beauty is in the eye of the fish keeper.

I checked out jcardona's thread. Its amazing how much information is there and at the same time there is so much more to learn.

Thanks Gangster!

 

[wrenchaholic]

thats exactly what i think. i catch peacock bass in the river behind moms house. and whatever they are they are cool as heck. i have had dozens of them and now have 4 . so far my favorite fish.

orinos are orinos.. some are darker, some are lighter, some have a little more spangling than the next one. i think where they are caught has little to do with that, i think their color is determined genetically depending on who the parents are. and you can quite often find many different colors and different spangling in the same spawn.

there are different species.. like ocellaris, orino, temensis, monoculous.. etc. but all this bahia kelberi vs. kelberi (and i'm not certain that kelberi are anything more than a very goldy colored ocellaris) and rio meta orino vs. rio negra orino vs. generic orino is just hype to get folks to pay more for the same fish.

i love my peacock bass, and i'll ALWAYS have some. but some of this "which river was it collected from" nonsense is just that.