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Posted by Spindoctor on March 29, 2005, 12:10 pm
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>Spindoctor wrote:
>> Struggling to identify one oof my fish, since I have got photographs
>> of both ahli and fryeri and they can look very similar, shop that sold
>> it to me wasn't completely certain as they took it off someone as it
>> was getting a bit agressive, I found that when it was first put into
>> the tank is was fairly shy (the tanks is dominated by a 8in venustus
>> who does a good job of keeping order), but when I did a recent
>> reorganisation and introduce three fish that had a lot of blue he when
>> through a major character change - at present its in isolation and I
>> will reintroduce it in a couple of weeks to see if this takes the edge
>> off his agression
>>
>>
>> The firsh is an attractive darkish metallic blue, with a whitet strip
>> running from above the eyes to to top of his tail, the anal fin is
>> showing some colour but not yet very strong, fish is about 4in long.
>>
>> When scared it burrows into the substance, if that helps.
>>
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>That's gonna be hard since they're the same fish. ;-) Konings
>redescribed the fish and named it S. fryeri in "A revision of the genus
>Sciaenochromis Eccles & Trewavas, 1989 (Pisces, Cichlidae). Cichlids
>Yearbook v. 3: 28-36."
>
>http://www.aquatic-hobbyist.com/profiles/freshwater/cichlids/electricblue.html
>explains the renaming very nicely at the bottom of the page under
>Miscellaneous.
Actually that makes me feel a lot better, if I had much hair left I
woud have been pulling it out by now, since the books I have got are
someone confusing on the issue
Many thanks
Brian
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> of both ahli and fryeri and they can look very similar, shop that sold
> it to me wasn't completely certain as they took it off someone as it
> was getting a bit agressive, I found that when it was first put into
> the tank is was fairly shy (the tanks is dominated by a 8in venustus
> who does a good job of keeping order), but when I did a recent
> reorganisation and introduce three fish that had a lot of blue he when
> through a major character change - at present its in isolation and I
> will reintroduce it in a couple of weeks to see if this takes the edge
> off his agression
>
>
> The firsh is an attractive darkish metallic blue, with a whitet strip
> running from above the eyes to to top of his tail, the anal fin is
> showing some colour but not yet very strong, fish is about 4in long.
>
> When scared it burrows into the substance, if that helps.
>