I am showing my Vieja species grow out photos. The first pair of photos is a V. melanuras, second pair V. bifaciatas, and the third pair V. synspillum. The bifas and melanuras were purchased from Rapp at 2 inch, and both were unremarkable silvery fish that look almost identifcal except for the length of the horizontal stripe. Over the next few months, they went through color transformation and looked more different each day. The bifas outgrew the melanuras rapidly and began to bully the smaller melanuras and I had to separate them. The third pair of photo is a syns I purchased from House of Tropical of Baltimore at 3 inch, already showing some color which intensified over time. I had all three Vieja for about 7 months, and they are now between 4 to 7 inch.
