Doradid

[Dave Rinaldo]

I'm being lazy searching for ID This guy is 4"TL. I was moving fish and forgot I even had him!
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[Caol_ila]

Hi!

I own three of these myself...
Ive had some emails with Mark Sabaj about them and hes come to the conclusion that it is a undescribed Doradidae species. i have a barbel pic in the catelog to which he replied: >>Hi Christian, cool. Those barbels definitely belong to a species of the undescribed genus referred to as "Petalodoras" by Higuchi 1992<<
I think in the old forum SG wrote ha had some which were sold as Opsodoras stubeli. Under this name they are labeled in the Mergus.

forgot: my biggest is 15 cm tl the others 13cm and 9 cm
they look close to Doras eigenmanni...so i first thought they should be called Doras cf. eigenmanni...

[Sid Guppy]

Yup; had one of that Opsodoras stubeli.
Wish I could get them again; but unfortunately....
Doras eigenmanni and Opsodoras stubeli are NOT the same fish; the stubeli is smaller and flatter and slimmer in built, but they look a LOT alike.
GREAT fish to keep; very peaceful, up to the point of tolerating baby guppies etc.
I only had one (it was a by-catch on Opsodoras sp; a striped species) but if you can get a few; do so; they're groupers and tend to pine away when kept single.

They're an ABSOLUTE must for anybody who like their cats well-mannered!

[Caol_ila]

@sg i can only underline the good manners of these fish.
dyou have any clue where these fish come from?
I bought mine under the name of Hassar ucayalensis i wonder where the mistake was made as they had them on the stocklist by this name...

mine had a very bad bacterial infection which i cured with "furanol" i lost one fish a while later...

[coelacanth]

There are still some of these at BAS here in Bolton, or at least something very similar if anyone is interested.
Pete