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Got this pic sent into the site from an English importer. Any ideas at all - I have not seen anything like this before. It appears to be a similar shape to <i>Trachelyopterichthys taeniatus</I>.
Jools
Last edited by Jools on 16 Aug 2003, 16:38, edited 2 times in total.
Interests: large cats-odd balls-I also breed alot of different african cichlid. but my favorite thing is collecting RARE or very hard to obtain fish...
Lots of male Tatia and Glanidium cuadal fins grow like that, but not quite to that extreme. The growth difference between the top and bottom lobes of the caudal does appear to increase with age.
The ten year old T. galaxias I have a quite dramatic, the T. intermedia I got four years ago are to a much lesser extent.