Vieja synspila?
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They are actually back to Vieja now. Vieja melanura (synspilium is a synonym).
OP-what do you want to know about them?
OP-what do you want to know about them?
These Vieja are great to keep if you have an appropriate size tank. To me, anything under 100 gallons is too small, for a pair alone.
Their coloration tends to intensify with age.
When young they look like this.
They also have beautiful similar colored cousins like V bifasciata
and V breidhori
all needing spacious accommodations.
Their coloration tends to intensify with age.
When young they look like this.
They also have beautiful similar colored cousins like V bifasciata
and V breidhori
all needing spacious accommodations.
Thank you all, I’m not getting one...maybe a future goal.
I just wanted to read about them bc I’m a fish nerd and like reading things about interesting fish
Nothing wrong w/ that.
Edit: check this out. Scroll down talks more about classification, evolution, individual species and teeth. Very cool to see the differences.
http://www.senckenberg.de/files/con...-1/01_vertebrate_zoology_66-1_rican_1-102.pdf
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These fish are beautiful...I’m def not “planning” to get anymore fish...yet!These Vieja are great to keep if you have an appropriate size tank. To me, anything under 100 gallons is too small, for a pair alone.
Their coloration tends to intensify with age.
When young they look like this.
They also have beautiful similar colored cousins like V bifasciata
and V breidhori
all needing spacious accommodations.
I’m about 5 years away from a larger tank, when I buy a house the basement will be a fish room for sure!
Do you keep any of these fish?
I have kept most of the Vieja genus and their close cousins (my photos are all fish I have kept), but hardly ever, more than one species of the genus (or its look a likes) together in a tank successfully.
And I agree it is best to wait until you can provide appropriate accommodations, for any fish.
A few of the other similar species once considered in Vieja, but not now DNA evidence has separated them.
Chuco micropthalmus
Chuco intermedia
Maskaheros argentea
And Maskaheros regani
And I agree it is best to wait until you can provide appropriate accommodations, for any fish.
A few of the other similar species once considered in Vieja, but not now DNA evidence has separated them.
Chuco micropthalmus
Chuco intermedia
Maskaheros argentea
And Maskaheros regani
