shane Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 We bought a group of these as 'johannii' when they were juviniles. Now the males are starting to colour up and we think they may be a cross. Some of them are showing verticle barring. The two in the pictures are from the same group and looked the same before colouring up. Do you think these may be hybrid? Thanks, Shane & Shell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danpri Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 Not sure, maybe a saulosi cross? lets have a look in four weeks and see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metalion Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 Hi Shane, When I had my johannii, it was like saulosi. Only difference was (little bit of) darker color than saulosi. It was like your first picture. Then it started to show the color. Like danpri said, you may sit back & watch for weeks. Cheers, Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E4G13M4N Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 If all the fish you purchased where in the same group either they are hybrids or the tank had mixed fish in there IMO top 2 look more like zebras of some sort bottom pic possibly johanni male needs more color though to be sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbunaman Posted January 27, 2005 Share Posted January 27, 2005 im guessing thats a sub dominant male which can start to colour differently to dominant males,therefor the vertical barring shows up before the rest of him..chances are he will get to almost full colour even in the most crowded of tanks,just takes longer for certain fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ant Posted January 27, 2005 Share Posted January 27, 2005 Just to point ya to this thread: http://ace.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=13145 . Johanni and interruptus get mixed up very easily. The male interuptus start to colour up very early and yes they do start to colour up firstly with verticle bars then gradually get a couple of horizontal bars. Having said this your's are either not very good quality fish or they are Interruptus x johanni hybrids which is also very common (unfortunately). The bottom fish looks similar to interruptus but yes the top one looks like some sort of zebra as Mark said and that purple one could be anything.....lol. Were they all supposed to be siblings? Anthony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shane Posted January 28, 2005 Author Share Posted January 28, 2005 Thanks guys for the replies. Just to clarify, the fish in the background of the top picture is a cobalt, as for the others, they are sibblings. Better safe than sorry I think these guys might make good feeder fish . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlakeyBoyR Posted January 28, 2005 Share Posted January 28, 2005 Im in agreeance here. I'd have to say they're hybrids, and not even particularly nice looking ones at that. No offence intended Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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