Are These Bolivian Rams?

[Truck]

When I kept bolivians I distinctly remember them having red eyes, I'll have to find the pictures, maybe it's a genetic thing.

 

[philak]

Truck, you identified the pics at the start of this thread as being Bolivians and they don't have red eyes.......just goes to show how unreliable our memories are maybe (or maybe its my eyesight )

 

[Truck]

I identified the pics at the start as being bolivians because the one at the top appears as a question mark, and the one below (bolivian ram) I thought was the OP's picture.

 

[philak]

yes, you identified the pic as being Bolivian, does it have red eyes? Whether its the OPs pic or not ?

 

[Truck]

That specific picture no, I've had a few bolivians and one of them did have red eyes, the red wasn't as intense as in the picture above of the Blue ram, but it did have red outer eyes.

edit: It does have some light red/dark orange on the outer eye.

 

[philak]

Maybe it had been crying......think i will join it.....

 

[Truck]

Just nicked these off flickr:

Red outer eye, Obviously there is variation between each fish, which is why some of them will have different characteristics, be it red outer eyes or plain outer eyes, in the same way that some people have ginger hair, and some people have brown hair.

ps. Sarcasm is the lowest form of communication.

 

[chesterscot]

truck i think youll find the saying is "wit"
but well done you for the ID without red eyes
scot

 

[philak]

I've never seen rams with Red bellies either like that in the second pic so i guess anything is possible, including camera flash.

You started out saying both species have red eyes, retreated to saying well yours did, retreated further to " well one of them did, a bit" then found some distinctly odd coloured pics.

Everyone else can decide for themselves when they go to their LFS and look at the Bolivians there but clearly your original statement that both species have red eyes is not the same as " one of mind had a red tint" .

As i say, everyone else can decide for themselves by going and looking.

 

[Truck]

Badly worded sentence, I should have put may have red eyes, where did I say one species did? I didn't.

The wrong ID at the start has something to do with the fact that only one picture (altispinosus) appears when the page loads incase you're wondering.

 

[philak]

You clearly stated "Both species have red eyes" which you have now edited to read "may".

The ID at the start was not wrong, it was correct. That is a Bolivian Ram in the pic. It doesn't have red eyes and you identified it correctly as Bolivian which contradicted your assertion later.

Ever feel you have been here before?


You are so busy backtracking and editing your old posts now that you have lost yourself

 

[Truck]

I edited one post (what's the point in leaving a blatant sweeping statement for others to read, I want the info to be correct), I wrongly Id'd the fish at the beginning, because I thought that picture in the first post was the OP's which later turned out it wasn't, the OP's fish has been identified correctly now.

 

[philak]

No , you have edited two posts in this thread. Don't take my word for it though, go check yourself.

Once again, you correctly identified the fish in the first picture as Bolivian. It doesnt matter whether its a pic of his fish or not.You said that pic was of a Bolivian.


If you want to continue this then i suggest we do it through a moderator. I have screen shots of the threads so if you feel like any more editing feel free. I have the originals.

 

[Truck]

So I have edited two, one to add to a previous post about the eyes, and one to correct the misleading statement I made.

 

[chesterscot]

people admmiting they where wrong whatever next
scot