Please help me ID mom and son!
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Anybody?
Ok, here's the story....
About 2 years ago I had the dark zebra-looking female with, what I am pretty sure ,was a red zebra male.
I later sold him to my LFS when he got really territorial. I actually think that the one I recently bought from the same LFS is the same one I had sold to them before.He is pictured in my current avatar
I didn't know that they had mated, or that she was female, until I noticed the jaw had dropped considerably one day and shortly after saw the fry. They had always been fairly aggressive toward each other and she is very aggressive!
I never really knew what kind of fish she was and I always thought she was a different type of fish then the male, but her offspring look exactly like the "dad".
Is it that they are both red zebra's and she just looks so different because she is female, or what?
Also, she just recently started getting really beat up by her "son" and one other male in the tank...I'm cycling my 55 gallon now and hopefully it'll help when I get them in there!
Anyone with some insight as to whats up with these two?? Or is this just a stupid question, or what?
Ok, here's the story....
About 2 years ago I had the dark zebra-looking female with, what I am pretty sure ,was a red zebra male.
I later sold him to my LFS when he got really territorial. I actually think that the one I recently bought from the same LFS is the same one I had sold to them before.He is pictured in my current avatar
I didn't know that they had mated, or that she was female, until I noticed the jaw had dropped considerably one day and shortly after saw the fry. They had always been fairly aggressive toward each other and she is very aggressive!
I never really knew what kind of fish she was and I always thought she was a different type of fish then the male, but her offspring look exactly like the "dad".
Is it that they are both red zebra's and she just looks so different because she is female, or what?
Also, she just recently started getting really beat up by her "son" and one other male in the tank...I'm cycling my 55 gallon now and hopefully it'll help when I get them in there!
Anyone with some insight as to whats up with these two?? Or is this just a stupid question, or what?
the larger one looks either like a different species or a different type of zebra{there are many} or a hybrid Zebra type.. the fry {red one} took after dad and looks like a pure red zebra female like dad.. this happens sometimes.. where they will look pure coming from hybrid and pure parents..another pic of the dark one might help me determine its ID better
Wow! Thanks for the insight! 
I was wondering if it is possible that if two different fish mate, that the fry will often resemble the male...
Here are the only other good pictures I can get right now. Unfortunatly I only have my phone to take them with right now....batteries are dead in the other camera...
Usually shes really darkly colored, but sometimes she will get really light very quickly like in the photo of the fish fight between her and the "baby". They had locked lips!
I was wondering if it is possible that if two different fish mate, that the fry will often resemble the male...Here are the only other good pictures I can get right now. Unfortunatly I only have my phone to take them with right now....batteries are dead in the other camera...
Usually shes really darkly colored, but sometimes she will get really light very quickly like in the photo of the fish fight between her and the "baby". They had locked lips!
i have to say... i do not think she is a zebra..although could still be zebra hybrid ..she just has a different face and body shape.. the baby can definitly pass as pure zebra...pretty fish no matter what..
those bars make me thing of a dark male yellow lab, or a p. flavus...but the face looks more like a labeo. trawavase, but its hard to tell with the bad pics, but the younger one looks like a red zebra, but looks strange because the fins are very tall and long, and even the body is very long, zebras (metriaclima estherae) aren't that long, they are more tall bodied....
basically it looks like you have a bunch of hybrids....but that's ok, they can be gorgeous fish, and freaky!
basically it looks like you have a bunch of hybrids....but that's ok, they can be gorgeous fish, and freaky!
Yeah, she almost looks like the black& white johanni pseudomale featured in the article in TFH this month... But she's got this weird boxy mouth...
Anyway, thanks for the help!
Oh, and how did the logo get on one of the photos up there???
Anyway, thanks for the help!
Oh, and how did the logo get on one of the photos up there???