A few random pictures from the past week or so

[anewbie]

I always have trouble with overhead tank pics. Are there are fish showing? I can't tell. Nice sand color, lots of wood & vallisneria?

Are your pretty cardinals & plants in that same tank? The sand seems lighter, just a different lighting angle? Your tanks are so big it makes it hard to say just what I'm looking at sometimes, lol. Not your clown loach tank I'm pretty sure!

If you are referring to the two pictures in post https://www.fishforums.net/threads/...-from-the-past-week-or-so.491884/post-4383343 then yes both pictures are of the same aquarium.

 

[anewbie]

 

[anewbie]

 

[emeraldking]

Nice looking phenotype. I would get such one if they would offer it overhere.

What size is this tank? I love stretched shaped tanks a lot.

 

[anewbie]

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Nice looking phenotype. I would get such one if they would offer it overhere.
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What size is this tank? I love stretched shaped tanks a lot.

The image is a little misleading it is ~65 gallon; approx 48 (inches) long 16 wide and 18 tall. I'm slowly replacing my 29s with larger aquariums as the dwarf cichild do better in them. The fishes are nothing unusual - n. marginatus and n. mortenthaleri - i have a bunch (4 or 5) a. sp d39 in a 20 long and tuesday i'll move them over. I had spent 4 hours friday redoing that aquarium which amounted to removing everything and replacing the substrate with pool filter sand - unfortunately i couldn't see a bloody thing when i was putting in the wood and plants so i have to tweak it a little tuesday.
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The whiptail is a very common Loricaria simillima; they are widely available and i presume you could get them over there - they have many different catch location in white water and blackwater; the blackwater catches are said to be more fragile as most people don't keep them in blackwater - i wouldn't put them in hard water but the whitewater catches are said to be flexible. Since most of my aquariums are true blackwater it is not so relevant to myself.

 

[anewbie]

 

[gwand]

Stunning pics. Beautiful fishes.

 

[Innesfan]

Beautiful. N. marginatus let you know when they are not happy and this shoal looks really happy.

 

[anewbie]

Beautiful. N. marginatus let you know when they are not happy and this shoal looks really happy.

I have a couple of these - most of the ones the seller had died so he only had a few to ship:

This one was in the very back - the ones in front wouldn't sit still long enough to focus on them or adjust lighting. Maybe one day i'll get a better picture. To be honest I kind of prefer the red nose and marginatus to these - they aren't bad but since all three are around hte same price (marginatus a bit less) .... these fall lower in the desire list.

 

[Innesfan]

Looks like another N. trifasciatus/erythrurus variant. I suspect there as as many in that 'species complex' as there are for N. marginatus.

Tom C of Norway has some great photos of many of these variants on his site. I suspect we are going to have a whole lot of new species names to learn in short order.

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[anewbie]

Looks like another N. trifasciatus/erythrurus variant. I suspect there as as many in that 'species complex' as there are for N. marginatus.

Tom C of Norway has some great photos of many of these variants on his site. I suspect we are going to have a whole lot of new species names to learn in short order.

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Was sold as n. limatus

 

[Innesfan]

Was sold as n. limatus

It is definitely not. N. limatus is a N. beckfordi-type. Single.black stripe and beckfordi-coloring, the males especially. It can be distinguished from N. beckfordi by a series of black dots north of the primary stripe. Here's a photo of a N. limatus pair:

 

[anewbie]

It is definitely not. N. limatus is a N. beckfordi-type. Single.black stripe and beckfordi-coloring, the males especially. It can be distinguished from N. beckfordi by a series of black dots north of the primary stripe. Here's a photo of a N. limatus pair:

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I think the picture is closer than you think - as they have the single black stripe and the appropriate red markings. I'll check for the dots when i go downstairs with a magnifying glass - the image itself is blown out.

here is another a bit darker:

Playing with some in the photo editor i think they are n. limatus with bad lighting.
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But i could be mistaken. They do have the row of dots and the single black stripe; conversely if they are beckfordi and eat frys maybe i don't want them

 

[Innesfan]

Nope. This is the caudal of your fish. That is a N. trifasicatus/erythrurus pattern. Compare that to the solid red caudal of N. limatus above.

 

[anewbie]

Nope. This is the caudal of your fish. That is a N. trifasicatus/erythrurus pattern. Compare that to the solid red caudal of N. limatus above.

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Yea - i wonder I'll check if any of them have the solid red caudal. They are mix in with 2 other species and thy are a large minority.