OMG OMG OMG - I can't believe this! I just happened to be browsing the cichlids forum and spotted a thread asking members to identify some baby fish that they'd been told were Severums but thought might be Convicts - and replies were saying that they were all Pink Convicts.
Well - the fish in the photos look almost identical to my pair of Pink "Severums". Except having now just Googled up Pink Convicts I can see quite clearly that my Severums are, in fact, Pink Convicts!!! No wonder I couldn't find any information anywhere on Pink Severums. Doh!!
Do you know how stupid I feel? All these months of thinking I had a pair of rare Pink Severums. Just wait till I go to my LFS next time! I don't know how they could have got it so wrong - I guess Convicts and Severums look alike... and as I was unable to find any pics of Pink Severums anywhere (the closest were gold severums) I had nothing to compare them with.
Has anyone else had anything similar happen to them, where they believed they owned a certain fish and found out later it was something else?
Athena
Well - the fish in the photos look almost identical to my pair of Pink "Severums". Except having now just Googled up Pink Convicts I can see quite clearly that my Severums are, in fact, Pink Convicts!!! No wonder I couldn't find any information anywhere on Pink Severums. Doh!!
Do you know how stupid I feel? All these months of thinking I had a pair of rare Pink Severums. Just wait till I go to my LFS next time! I don't know how they could have got it so wrong - I guess Convicts and Severums look alike... and as I was unable to find any pics of Pink Severums anywhere (the closest were gold severums) I had nothing to compare them with.
Has anyone else had anything similar happen to them, where they believed they owned a certain fish and found out later it was something else?
Athena