Red head tapajos not red?

[neutrino]

I gave up fussing over the orange head/red head hair splitting a while ago. To me it's to-ma-to vs. to-mah-to. Either way is a descriptive nickname for a fish not yet officially described. Good chance neither one makes the cut once scientists officially name these fish.

Either way it's the same fish. Rapps lists them as Geophagus sp. 'red head Tapajos', maybe because its the more common name in some quarters. Google it and either name comes up-- bottom line is it's effectively the same fish by either name.

 

[neutrino]

...So, not to argue just for the sake of it, but tapajos red head is a thing. It's what half the English speaking fishkeeping world calls the fish that the other half calls orange head.... or you could be more fine about it and say it's what 47% of the fish keeping world calls what another 47% of the fish keeping world calls orange head and another 5% calls orange "cap" and another 1% calls whatever other name they've made up for it.

 

[darth pike]

It also seems to me that these Geos are one of the few fish that don't benefit from the black substrate. They always seem more colorful under lighter, natural colors in the pics/live ones I've seen. A few species fall under this (Geo's, Apisto. cacatuoides, a few others).

 

[RD.]

It also seems to me that these Geos are one of the few fish that don't benefit from the black substrate. They always seem more colorful under lighter, natural colors in the pics/live ones I've seen. A few species fall under this (Geo's, Apisto. cacatuoides, a few others).

+1

 

[fishnatics]

I keep mine on white sand and you can see that they're red.

 

[JK47]

My group is small and in a bare bottom holding tank while the 330 is being rebuilt. Their colors are more dull due to the tank situation. In true orange head fashion they are breeding anyway (bottom left) but nevertheless much less colorful on the incorrect substrate so I agree with the above.





OP I snapped a pic of the fish I was referring to above. This is the orange heads being sold in my local area (won't name the LFS as they are currently in three different stores near me) right now and they happen to be on light substrate and have been there for weeks. The flanks are darker and the nuchal region shows much less of a bold red or orange. More pink under the right lighting but that's about it. The larger ones in the area also show the correct barring and caudal marking but still show minimal to any red even at larger sizes.

 

[neutrino]

Don't know about black sand, but mine look good with black background, light sand.

 

[Fishnthehood]

Looks like one of my Albie's in the photo who sometime can give off a redish hue on their head, You can see in the photos below the difference from a true red head and a albie.

 

[JK47]

Looks like one of my Albie's in the photo who sometime can give off a redish hue on their head, You can see in the photos below the difference from a true red head and a albie.

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Beautiful fish Fishnthehood . In the OP's pic you can clearly see the blue in the pectoral fin. G. abalios are red. Additionally take a look at the bisect vertical barring running the full length of the flank. G. abalios have a "Y" bar behind the head/first set. Orange heads have the full flank bisect barring.

 

[Fishnthehood]

Beautiful fish Fishnthehood . In the OP's pic you can clearly see the blue in the pectoral fin. G. abalios are red. Additionally take a look at the bisect vertical barring running the full length of the flank. G. abalios have a "Y" bar behind the head/first set. Orange heads have the full flank bisect barring.

Thank You ... I have a 330 currently mixed with all wild caught Red Heads, Albie's and dicrozoster along with a two Oscar's, two severums a chocolate cichlid.