Bought this guy yesterday .Help needed to find his ID

ZhenZhu

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Hi .I just bought this guy yesterday from my near by LFS .Need help to find what variety he belongs to and also he is very shy when someone approaches , but having his feed when fed when no one is
around him.Thanks in advance for the replies.

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Alexxxxsv14

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Looks like a SRD
Super red dragon

very nice double row of flower line.

should become more personable once settled in.
 

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I would add, just because it's a man made hybrid doesn't mean it don't have millions of years of evolution ingrained into it's genes. It's still rather small so natural instincts tells it to hide. You can see this by it trying to hide behind the sponge filter. Give it something to hide behind, some rocks, fake plants something till it gets some size and reaches maturity and won't be so inclined to hide so much.
 

danotaylor

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You can see this by it trying to hide behind the sponge filter. Give it something to hide behind, some rocks, fake plants something till it gets some size and reaches maturity and won't be so inclined to hide so much.
Exactly what I was thinking...
 
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ZhenZhu

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Update but still he is shy but eating pellets infront of me.

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troublesum

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i would say 90% SRD nice looking little guy give him some time in no time you will be asking us for help on how to make him stop attacking you when your hands are in the tank.
If your going to keep in him that bare bottom tank put a small mirror on the side of his tank for 15-20 minutes a day keep his colors and helps his KOK
 

ZhenZhu

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i would say 90% SRD nice looking little guy give him some time in no time you will be asking us for help on how to make him stop attacking you when your hands are in the tank.
If your going to keep in him that bare bottom tank put a small mirror on the side of his tank for 15-20 minutes a day keep his colors and helps his KOK
When I try to place a mirror on side of the tank it just gets shy and moved to another end of the aquarium.By the way what is that 10 % then?
 
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