PetSmart Terrors

[TrikkyMakk]

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?

 

[Modest_Man]

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.

 

[pwmin]

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.

 

[FSM]

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.

 

[ctenopoma]

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

 

[Salvins_herd]

my 3" green terror is starting to colour up lovely

 

[killerfish]

yep they all look silver untill there around 3'' then they turn fully orange

 

[FSM]

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.

 

[TrikkyMakk]

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.

 

[scubasteve06]

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.