Red tiger severum

[Dico Lin]

Recently got some red tiger severum, fish store indicated they are wild caught but I did some research and think there are something wrong from fish store owner’s saying, the research I did says wild caught one’s stripe should be straight and in intermittent, what do you think?

 

[FJB]

I think nice fish!

 

[fishguy1978]

Very nice.

 

[ryansmith83]

They are likely Heros severus. The bars are correct -- most Heros severus have a half-seventh bar as some of yours show. But in my F1 fry I also get fish that are totally missing the half bar, or the half bar appears on a bar other than bar seven. So there is a lot of variation in that.

I'm not sure if they are wild-caught or not. The last picture appears to show a fish with an underdeveloped upper lip, which I would expect to see in tank-bred fish, though it's entirely possible those deformities show up in wilds too.

 

[Pzrtek]

Recently got some red tiger severum, fish store indicated they are wild caught but I did some research and think there are something wrong from fish store owner’s saying, the research I did says wild caught one’s stripe should be straight and in intermittent, what do you think?

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Do not look like Tiger Severums. The seventh bar is either short or or touching the one of the other bars to make it look like a Y

 

[ryansmith83]

Do not look like Tiger Severums. The seventh bar is either short or or touching the one of the other bars to make it look like a Y

They are severus/red tigers. The barring is highly variable in F1 fish. I was the first person in the US to import and breed these, so I have worked with them extensively for 7 years now. They have a very specific body shape and color development that these fish exhibit.

 

[Man-made Monsters]

I just saw these labeled as wild caught fish at the Aquarium Center in Clementon NJ today. They were the nicest Severum I have ever seen. Nice buy.

 

[nicobee18]

Beautiful fish, extremely jealous! I really would love a pair of these for my Amazonian Cichlid aquarium, but they seem to be non existent in Western Australia! Will definitely be keeping an eye out for updates on these