two new veija!

[azfishfool]

I bought what ws labled as a syn. and in the same tank there was a darker fish with blackish stripes now both fish are around 1.5" or so. just curious as to what the darker one may be, hard to find smaller vieja pics. it looks like if you took a argentea and made it a lot darker to me. will try to get some pics later on

 

[Mystus Redtail]

Sounds like Synspilum to me. I have several of them and at 1.5 one was silvery with the standard black stripe down the side, and the other was really dark with veritcal stripes. I'll try to find a pic for you to compare yours with.



edit:

That's what my darker one looked like.

 

[warren4066]

no pics make you a liar

 

[azfishfool]

either im a liar or your impatient. one of the two loading pics right now

 

[azfishfool]

here ya go
the lighter one was listed as the syn. the darker one they didnt know

 

[zerelli]

Weird, none of my syns ever did show any vertical bars.

 

[azfishfool]

the lighter one is the syn i believe the darker im thinking black belt but not sure

 

[SMS]

In the 1st pic the one on the left is a blackbelt

 

[Camphilophus]

You sure those are 1.5"? I have 10 2-3" syns right now and they all look just like this and their diet is amazing. Maybe its my pH and the fact that I've only got them in a 30gallon..

here they are the first day I got them at 1.5"

I don't know jack about vieja but if none of mine are black with any vertical bars I'm going to go ahead and say your darker one has to be a blackbelt or something else. Let me know if you want to see some more pictures of mine.

 

[azfishfool]

looks like black belts to me but we will see i will continue to document the growth of these along with my other vieja