Hi well after taking most of my big fish to the LFS this morning I had a look round and found a group of these in the back room. Causing me a bit of confusion but Im fairly happy with what I think they are but more on that in a sec first pics!
Right to the confusion! I know what most will say when they see them - they are Altums but I am 90% certain they are not. Me being me could not just go for regular angels so I got these
They were imported as Leopoldi which they may well be but interestingly Wildwoods is selling long nosed Leopoldi I reckon these are a regional variant of Pterophyllum leopoldi. Still not 100% but we shall see as they grow. They were imported from Peru and I seem to recall hearing about a fish called the Peruvian Angel a few years ago that had the pointy nose of an aultum and the more solid bars like an altum but they only got to the size of a scalarae.... but like I say we will see.
I picked out the most obvious pair from the group of 5 I would have quite liked to get the full group but not got the tank size with my current fish and it seemed quite obvious that these two did not like their comrades.
Wills
Right to the confusion! I know what most will say when they see them - they are Altums but I am 90% certain they are not. Me being me could not just go for regular angels so I got these
They were imported as Leopoldi which they may well be but interestingly Wildwoods is selling long nosed Leopoldi I reckon these are a regional variant of Pterophyllum leopoldi. Still not 100% but we shall see as they grow. They were imported from Peru and I seem to recall hearing about a fish called the Peruvian Angel a few years ago that had the pointy nose of an aultum and the more solid bars like an altum but they only got to the size of a scalarae.... but like I say we will see.I picked out the most obvious pair from the group of 5 I would have quite liked to get the full group but not got the tank size with my current fish and it seemed quite obvious that these two did not like their comrades.
Wills
