Barring On Cambo's

[ibbledibble]

I had always read (from various different sources) that the horizontal stress stripes and the vertical breeding stripes on female did not show up on cambodian females (or in fact any light bodied female).
However there is a seller on ebay advertising 3 sets of 2 females. on each of these ads he states that "They are 4 months old and already barring. If you have a similar sized male they will be ready to spawn". 2 of these sets of females are cambodian colouration, so surely cannot be barring.

So what i want to know is, is the seller lying to make a sale? or have i been given incorrect information regarding barring on pale colours?

Thanks in advance for the advice.

 

[devon_charm]

They do bar up like any other but on light bodied fish it is near impossible to see. I know i can't see it on my white and cello girls and i couldn't see it on my Red fin Cambo. But in saying that perhaps the seller can, maybe due to colouration the bars are slightly noticable.

I don't like to point finger and call people a lier. Tho in my thinking it may be more of an educated guess, as females should be baring at that age, rather than something that was seen. Then again i may be wrong

 

[ibbledibble]

maybe the bars are noticable due to the colouration of the particular fish (though in the pictures they look the same as any other cambos i have seen no darker or anything)

but if the sellar is "making an educated guess" i would personally consider this to be a lie. unless the fish is actually egging up (in which case he should state that she is egging up already not baring) then he cannot state that she "will be ready to spawn" he is using this statement to improve the desirability of the purchase, but it is not necessarily true.

he should state that they are a good age for breeding not imply that they are ready and willing to breed as from what i understand (and i fully admit to it only being what i have been told, not firsthand experience) some fish will not bar up and/or will not be willing to mate.

i simply feel that a good seller would only state the facts as they know them, not make suppositions and if they must make suppositions at least point out that this is what they are, not facts. for example honest_aquatics only states the age of the fish and the conditions they are kept in, all facts not guesses. this would make me more inclined to buy from honest_aquatics (even if i didn't already know how good they are)

This would in turn lead to better feedback and recommendations if people feel they have got what they paid for not been mislead by incorrect information.

maybe others disagree with me, but thats just the way i feel.

Edit : Oh and i'm not really trying to point the finger, was just trying to find out if the information i had been given was wrong. poor choice of words i suppose.

 

[Bubblenester]

That sounds like a line that they just put in all their auctions for females. I also see sellers that put "full of eggs!" in every auction for a female. While neither is necessarily untrue, I agree that I would rather see just the facts, and only have them write that the fish is barred up or full of eggs if that has actually been observed, instead of just copying and pasting the same thing every time.