tyrano34 wrote:... how many days between these transformations?
you are changed parameter or food?
Hi Tyrano, that is a matter of a few seconds. I had a hard time catching that guy in „real black“. It was enough to reach for the camera and „go after him“, once he felt aimed at him, that was enough to change the colour to his typical colouration. The same experience I made recently with one Garra rufa, she was pretty „loaded“ and very pale, as soon as I wanted to document that bright colour of her, she changed back to darker/normal and I was left without pic of her pale colour.
plaalye wrote:Wassercheu is that the same fish in all three pics?
I am very tempted to simply answer „Yes“.
But trying to split the famous hair by trying to be „scientifically correct“, it’s either one of those 2 – or both those 2 of the below picture. These 2 are the only ones left in the big-loaches tank, all other Stiphodon were moved to the tank with the small loaches, where they do better and got their firm body back (they are slow eaters, the large loaches are too quick and effective „vacuumcleaners“). I‘m assuming the right one in below pic is the one on the 2nd and third pic. of above post. The left one on below pic may be the one on the first. Those 2 appear identical to me, except occasionally I see the „shine“ of the snout of the right one more „magenta“ and the left one more „greenish“. But most of the time they looked identical. The past months, the somewhat smaller one tends more to the dark tones.
They do have different territories, thats how I could keep them appart, when they are looking identical. Also, the shape of the eyes of one was a tiny little different when it was younger, the right one is younger.
The posing on the bottleneck makes me think it’s the left (older, „greenish“ one). About half a year ago, I had almost no way to differentiate them by their looks.
Many goobies show stronger colours at the dominant male.
Here an older pic where both look similar (as far as they are dedectable on this pic at all)
The most upper one is the one on the first pic of above (previous) post.
It’s also most likely one of the 3 left ones in thatr older pic
it may be this one on the lower left
Some day I will sort through more pics and hopefully show all my variations of the various Stiph’s and their looks as far as captured, but that was already more time spent than planed
Happy Easter
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