two new veija!

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo

azfishfool

Feeder Fish
MFK Member
Oct 20, 2007
574
0
0
38
Arizona
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
 
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:




watermark.php



That's what my darker one looked like.
 
either im a liar or your impatient. one of the two loading pics right now
 
here ya go
the lighter one was listed as the syn. the darker one they didnt know

newfish013.jpg

newfish012.jpg

newfish011.jpg

newfish010.jpg

newfish009.jpg

newfish008.jpg

newfish007.jpg

newfish006.jpg

newfish005.jpg

newfish004.jpg

newfish003.jpg

newfish002.jpg

newfish001.jpg
 
the lighter one is the syn i believe the darker im thinking black belt but not sure
 
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..
94b5b9d0.jpg


here they are the first day I got them at 1.5"
7ab495f6.jpg


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