Identifying baby goliath tigerfish

[Lobonator]

That looks pretty FATF to me! How big is that guy? 3 inches?

 

[Cowturtle]

Yep right around 3in.

 

[sunnysjourney]

Nice and yeah I was fairly confident that it was a FATF, they are awesome. And crazy lol. Here’s a pic of my guy he was around 10” when I lost him

 

[moe214]

Agreed looks fatf

 

[eeJamBOYan]

Yep right around 3in.

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FATF and V can be kept together?

Mine was aggressive. Kept swiping the scales off other silver looking fishes.

 

[eeJamBOYan]

Nice and yeah I was fairly confident that it was a FATF, they are awesome. And crazy lol. Here’s a pic of my guy he was around 10” when I lost him

Protruding lower jaw.

Is this the sure way of differentiating an F from other V-ish ATF?

 

[moe214]

Protruding lower jaw.

Is this the sure way of differentiating an F from other V-ish ATF?

No slender body is usually a giveaway, from there you have to look at body proportions head size to eye size and jaw size, adipose fin color, can do scale counts etc