pls look ,,, wide Bar or not ?

[plausible]

the eyes look overly huge and almost poping out compared to my IT

mine

 

[dr exum]

The more I look at this fish I think its a an ST...

The fish is nearly perfectly symmetrical...look at how close the middle bars are in shape to one another. Second the last body bar doesnt have that "hump" that many many 3-bar indos have.

Anyone else notice this?

i put him on another site and everyone there said ST ---

 

[dr exum]

It looks like a lower quality ST to me. One thing I have noticed with my ITs is that they look a lot different than my STs when they are stressed and unstable. My STs just get darker overall, but with my ITs, the light section gets dark and the stripes get lighter. This fish is displaying the general darkness that I don't usually see with my ITs.

BTW I really like the blotchy stripes.

i was thinking this as well as I had 2 small indos first---

well i'm gonna continue to feed and keep him in clean water and a big tank so that i can get some good healthy pics in a month or so..

thanks all for the comments

 

[dr exum]

if the owner feels happyer thinking its ST let him think that then he wont take it back and swap it again

the LFS owner def knows his tigers and what he can palm off as ST

this is true---

the fish is nice either way......

i'm just into more rare fish --

 

[plausible]

good luck with it!im hoping to get an ST for myself..someday

 

[EKen53]

I am beyond suprised there is this many people thinking ST. To me its an obvious IT.

Its no where near as tall enough to be ST of that size.

The tail strips say IT.

The middle bar doesn't tapper back at all, just the front part of the middle bar stops. This goes along with the overall look of the "blotchy" bars. Every bar is broken a bit, and the middle bar is no different. So the bars all go strait down.

I also aggree with T1k again, the large eyes are a IT trait.


Let me just say that I am saying all this for the sake of argument, not because I don't think the fish is nice. Its a beautiful Indo and I would deff keep it if I had it.

Agreed too. It has the bodyshape of an IT, the tail stripes pattern of an IT. It is still a nice "true" 3 bars IT.