Red Tiger Severum ID

[Aquanoobious]

Not seeing the split bar in these to properly ID them as Red Tiger (purchased as such). Can anyone help confirm? ryansmith83

 

[ryansmith83]

Shape-wise they do look like severus but it's odd that in a group you don't have any with the half-bars. I'm suspicious that they could be Inirida which are sometimes mistakenly sold as severus when they're juveniles. Both fish look really similar and have similar barring. It could also be that this seller got the fish from a source who separated out the "correctly barred" ones and sold them to someone else, and then wholesaled the misbarred ones.

Unfortunately you won't know until you grow them out a bit more, but body shape tells me it's severus or sp. Inirida.

 

[Aquanoobious]

Shape-wise they do look like severus but it's odd that in a group you don't have any with the half-bars. I'm suspicious that they could be Inirida which are sometimes mistakenly sold as severus when they're juveniles. Both fish look really similar and have similar barring. It could also be that this seller got the fish from a source who separated out the "correctly barred" ones and sold them to someone else, and then wholesaled the misbarred ones.

Unfortunately you won't know until you grow them out a bit more, but body shape tells me it's severus or sp. Inirida.

Thank you Ryan. Your expertise on this species is one held in high regard. So, within the same batch of Severus, there can be individuals that show no broken bar?

We’ll see how they grow out. Thanks again.

 

[ryansmith83]

Here is a group of F1 from wild severus parents. You can see that some have forked bars, some have only 8 bars, some have half bars on a bar other than the 8th one, etc.