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L173

beautiful fish... Absolutely stunning. Thanks for sharing.

Stunning!

How big is it? Is this an adult we are looking at? How many do you have? It would be great to see you breed them.

madmoroccan wrote:beautiful fish... Absolutely stunning. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks madmoroccan

Raul-7 wrote:Stunning!

How big is it? Is this an adult we are looking at? How many do you have? It would be great to see you breed them.

Thanks Raul; it is 6cm long, should be a young male but it is very thin at the moment (a bit worried). I only have one and just purchased it yesterday... i am feeding it with bbs and hope it will be fatter soon...

I plan to keep it together with my normal L46 later on.

No offence meant, but I think that it is L46.

There is considerable variation in the pattern, thick stripe, thin stripe.

I have a number of wild caught and one is very similar, when it bred with a normal patterned L46 it produced normal fry.

Datz also no longer list it in their book.

Take L98, supposedly only ever 3 specimens ever collected.

My understanding is that while occurring in the Xingu, the populations are isolated, and there is variation in pattern.

It is a nice fish though.

Dave

Dave: You are right and i think so. i (and many many other people) believe that L198, L173 and L46 all belong to the same scientific species. My plan is to keep and breed this specimen with the normal L46

by the way, has anybody here bred or cross-bred this kind of zebra before?

dave wrote:No offence meant, but I think that it is L46.

There is considerable variation in the pattern, thick stripe, thin stripe.

I have a number of wild caught and one is very similar, when it bred with a normal patterned L46 it produced normal fry.

Datz also no longer list it in their book.

Take L98, supposedly only ever 3 specimens ever collected.

My understanding is that while occurring in the Xingu, the populations are isolated, and there is variation in pattern.

It is a nice fish though.

Dave

very unique and beautiful. is L46 suppose to have blue and black eyes? this one kind of have brown and black eyes. (expert please help me on this one)

chanettt wrote:very unique and beautiful. is L46 suppose to have blue and black eyes? this one kind of have brown and black eyes. (expert please help me on this one)

You bring up a good question. The tail looks much more different than regular L46's, the body looks more armored than your regular L46 and the eyes are different as well.

BlueBlue, try posting this on Planet Catfish in the forum 'What is my Catfish?' - they have a lot of experts that can help you. Or if you're good with German, lots of experts are available at www.l-welse.com

chanettt wrote:very unique and beautiful. is L46 suppose to have blue and black eyes? this one kind of have brown and black eyes. (expert please help me on this one)

Thanks chanettt and good observations. I only focused on the difference in the caudal fin while i do not pay full attention to the eyes

Raul-7 wrote:
You bring up a good question. The tail looks much more different than regular L46's, the body looks more armored than your regular L46 and the eyes are different as well.

BlueBlue, try posting this on Planet Catfish in the forum 'What is my Catfish?' - they have a lot of experts that can help you. Or if you're good with German, lots of experts are available at www.l-welse.com

Raul: Thanks for your comments and suggestions.
Yes, let me also post the pics in Planet Catfish and seek
their comments

no problem, however if you find out is this one is zebra pleae update in this forum caz i want to know too

chanettt wrote:no problem, however if you find out is this one is zebra pleae update in this forum caz i want to know too

My friend in Germany has sent the photos to the renowned expert
André Werner (who gives the L-Codes to the catfishes) and André
defines it as "L173"...

What a stunning little specimen.
Congrats on your find. You are one very lucky person!

Cheers,

Nick.