ace99 Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 Any ideas in regards to which species this is? Please share your thoughts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Spader Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 It looks like a Red Zebra x Red Peacock. Looks different, where did you get it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
African_Fever Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 Looks to be a melanistic Aulonocara 'ruby red' or rubescenses (either is a line-bred red Aulonocara). Melanistic I believe is essentially an albino with black eyes. Nice looking fish. Sorry Spader, I don't see any signs of a hybrid in the pics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spader Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 African Fever, I looked again and stand by my first opinion. If you look at the mouth in the first pic, it is rather round for a Aulonocara ruby red. Mine looks nothing like this one, mine is shaped more like a Aulonocara stuartgranti. just my 2 cents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
African_Fever Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 Sorry Spader, I still don't see it. Even if the first pic looks a little off, pic 2 as a side profile looks good to me. Melanistic ruby reds are rather common, and I've yet to hear of a non-ob Aulonocara/Zebra cross. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ace99 Posted April 29, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2005 Both of you may be correct. The father of this fish was purchased at Westhills Petland 2.5 years ago labelled as "red aulonocara". I assumed that "red aulonocara" translated to "ruby red aulonocara". I suspected that he was amelanistic because he was very pale. He was purchased because I wanted to introduce some new non-albino genes into my breeding group of albino ruby reds. Low and behold, as he matured....he developed into no other ruby red that I had ever seen before. The body did not have any dark pigmentation nor blue hues...just a red/orange color...just like an albino but without the red eyes. The thing that made me question whether he was a hybrid was the red colored head and lack of colored barring on the body (red zebras have red colored heads and no barring). The original fish has died and this is the dominant male from the only clutch of fry. Out of the 16 babies, 4 had "normal" pigmentation, 4 had "OB" pigmentation, and 8 were amelanistic. You can see one of the "OB" female offsprings in the first picture. When I questioned the fish manager back then, he admitted to not knowing exactly what species the fish were. All that he knew was that they were bred in the orient. Hmmmm <_< Anyhow, I kind of like how he looks even though his exact identity may forever be "fish soup". He has the coloring similar to an albino ruby red but without the usual problems associated with true albinos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
African_Fever Posted April 29, 2005 Report Share Posted April 29, 2005 The red head would be normal for a melanistic fish as there's no blue pigment present, and the red can come pretty close in normal line-bred red peacocks to covering the whole head. Just look at albino jacob's versus regular jacob's. Lacking bars would be the same; without the black pigment present in the body, there's nothing to show bars with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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