Geographic Variant Morphology in S. rhombeus

[Diogenes]

So rocust (or anybody else), what about xingu, columbian, etc. What about the other parts of SA? What are the rhoms like in other places?

 

[Ripdevil]

this is a thread for the pros to weigh in on

 

[SharkAquarium]

I caught that fish on the Rio Iriri, which runs into the Rio Xingu, just south of there it merges with the Amazon. While the blue on that fish is very noteworthy, look at the marble pattern on the sides. I have never seen that before (and I have seen quite a few rhoms). Hence I called that fish a Marbled Rhom. I'll post a couple of more pics.

g

 

[Ripdevil]

I was just about to bring up that fact and ask you about it. blue yes, but marble is really rare

 

[SharkAquarium]

I can probably get a hold of Pedro, not sure about G.
let me PM or email them first

What can I do for you?

g

 

[SharkAquarium]

I do actually. OPEFE has a geographic variant index with pictures. We could actually write a profile for every variant....

http://www.angelfire.com/biz/piranha038/rhom_geo.html




OMG! Talk about blue! Look at the fins on this thing:

looks like the blue come from BRAZIL - RIO IRIRI. Just a guess though. Frank refers to them here as "marble diamond rhoms." Is that the same thing as BDR?

I caught that fish on the Rio Iriri, which runs into the Rio Xingu, just south of there it merges with the Amazon. While the blue on that fish is very noteworthy, look at the marble pattern on the sides. I have never seen that before (and I have seen quite a few rhoms). Hence I called that fish a Marbled Rhom. I'll post a couple of more pics.

g

 

[jp80911]

What can I do for you?

g

first of, thank you for sharing your pearl of wisdom here.

now, what you can do for me is give me great discount every time I go shopping at your store

actually you can just share with us anything you know about rhombeus, what type of rhom is collected at which location. any different physical characteristic can be used to tell them apart, etc.

 

[jp80911]

I caught that fish on the Rio Iriri, which runs into the Rio Xingu, just south of there it merges with the Amazon. While the blue on that fish is very noteworthy, look at the marble pattern on the sides. I have never seen that before (and I have seen quite a few rhoms). Hence I called that fish a Marbled Rhom. I'll post a couple of more pics.

g

what happened to that fish? did you put it back into the river or it's still alive and swimming in some lucky guy's tank?

 

[Diogenes]

I caught that fish on the Rio Iriri, which runs into the Rio Xingu, just south of there it merges with the Amazon. While the blue on that fish is very noteworthy, look at the marble pattern on the sides. I have never seen that before (and I have seen quite a few rhoms). Hence I called that fish a Marbled Rhom. I'll post a couple of more pics.

g

Thank you so much. Hopefully we can catalog as much of this stuff as possible on the thread. It would be an amazing resource for hobbyists. I for one am very interested.

Thanks again,
-C

 

[Ripdevil]

Great! this is working