PetSmart Terrors

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TrikkyMakk

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So I was in PetSmart yesterday and I decided to check out their green terrors (read: Saums).

They had a couple in there that looked like the dorsal fin was orange (like a gold saum) about half way down and then the rest of the dorsal (plus the caudal too) looked silver \ white (like a silver saum).

Has anyone seen this before?
 
Yes, what size were they? When small (under 2" or so) it's very common to see. As the fish get larger the fin will turn completely orange.
 
Modest_Man;1708197; said:
Yes, what size were they? When small (under 2" or so) it's very common to see. As the fish get larger the fin will turn completely orange.
I agree.
 
Most of the ones I see there have a little bit of faded orange or none at all. Probably, they are all GS, which are more common.
 
yeah I got one from petsmart last week and picked up an almost 2 in male after in my tank after about a day he got some colour back and I noticed the red on is fins darkend and got fuller
 
yep they all look silver untill there around 3'' then they turn fully orange
 
Mine had orange from when I got him, which is why I got him instead of the others that lacked any good color. He looks great now, at around 4 inches.
 
That solves it then. There is already a lot of confusion as to what is a green terror and whatnot and I was thinking that if this was another strain or something that it was just going to make things worse.
 
I got my saum from petsmart...and then a week afterwards my LFS gets in a 7" Saum with the biggest nuchal hump i've seen on sub-adult specimen.
 
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