Weird-looking Pterodoras granulosus or what??

[Viktor Jarikov]

Asking for a peer from MFK. The peer bought two 20" bacu. One is a normal-looking granulosus, the other is this strange-looking one.

MFK thread: https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/foru ... sh.732302/

[Viktor Jarikov]

Bump.

[Jools]

It looks like P. granulosus with a broken spine to me (like what you see in a balloon paroon etc). The humeral process looks right. What did bother me is a passing resemblance to

Centrodoras

but the eyes, colouration isn't right and it's probably my inexperience with these fishes shining through! So, "balloon bacu" for me.

BTW, Bacu roughly means large doradid, it's not species-specific.

Jools

[Viktor Jarikov]

Thank you so much Jools. I hope Silurus will lay his eyes on it sooner or later too.