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Stiphodon semoni


stiphodon atropurpureus

please id stiphodon



stiphodon elegans or stiphodon rutilaureus

Definitely a stiphodon

How did you differentiate the s. semoni from s. atropupureus Tyrano? I can't see a difference from the pic.

Simple my friend, you have color on the fins and you notice that body stiphodon atropurpureus and very bigger. the body stiphodon semoni and thinner than Stiphodon atropurpureus and the stiphodon semoni no color on the dorsal fin.

odyssey wrote:Newcomer pair of S.atropurpureus.


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Look dorsal fin

Hi tyrano34.

The trouble is that the color of their dorsal fin is variable.
It is a convincing identification factor if a dorsal fin has red hemming. However, the red hemming is easy to disappear.

The most convincing grounds that I can take it as S.atropurpureus is that the production center is stated clearly with Taiwan northward.
The following grounds is presence of a white part of the bottom of the pectorals.
Please confirm the yes or no of a white part of the bottom of their pectoral.

odyssey wrote:Hi plaalye!!
I'm very thankful.
My worries were canceled.
The one I was asking is the invariable feature by the digital difference (1 or 0).
The male body color of Stiphodon turns big, so the distinction by the analog difference isn't effective.

I didn't know what "patch of white fatty tissue posterior to pectoral base" showed specifically.
http://filaman.ifm-geomar.de/Country/Co ... ies=semoni
This feature is probably invariable, even when the color pattern of the body and the fin changed drastically.

The males which came from Indonesia.
They have "patch of white fatty tissue posterior to pectoral base".
A possibility which is S.semoni is high.












The males which came from Taiwan
They seem to have no "patch of white fatty tissue posterior to pectoral base".
I can judge that those are S.atropurpureus.





Thank you for introducing a document about Stiphodon sapphirinus.
I saw for the first time. The male long dorsal fin would be characteristic and be a point of distinction.
They should change the color drastically as usual about the body color, too, so one specimen picture is only their aspect.
Many thanks!

[quote="odyssey"]Hi tyrano34.


The following grounds is presence of a white part of the bottom of the pectorals.
Please confirm the yes or no of a white part of the bottom of their pectoral.

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yes my friend

odyssey wrote:Hi everyone.
Because the editing of the video of the underwater photography in a natural river of Japanese Okinawa was over,
I can finally introduce video clip.

Stiphodon percnopterygionus
Their video clip is here.
Courtship Sheen in a natural habitat is included in the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN2i8F32Qvs

Could you show us on a map or you were and what path that you did.

I wonder if you just go below to check a hypothesis, I think young and Stiphodon sicyopterus are further down the River.

Give us more information on the River.

Thank you my friend

edit : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rkdHU9C ... re=related
I was right, what is the density at this location?

Okinawa is the most far-off place from the place where I live in.
Therefore I have gone to the river of Okinawa twice.
I do not so know a lot about geography of Okinawa.

However, Stiphodon.percnopterygionus seems to inhabit a lot the river of Okinawa.
They seem to inhabit widely from the lower basin to the upper basin.

The other Stiphodon genus rarely inhabits.
The river of Okinawa will be too cold for the other Stiphodon genus.

S.percnopterygionus is distributed over the Pacific Islands widely from the southern coast in China.
I do not know whether their habitation area extends to the Philippines.
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie ... 62a6ae256a

The course of the Kuroshio Current will be important.
http://spacefellowship.com/news/art9606 ... space.html

http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Mi-Oc/ ... rents.html

Odyssey you are a mind of information!

Time to revive one of my favorite threads.

yes

A thread revived, so several pictures and video clips are added.

Strife between the males of Stiphodon percnopterygionus & group of the females.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U28UO1LF_Zg

Male nesting of Stiphodon percnopterygionus and Rainbow-color,Orange-fin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-IwvuKYv9E

A male of Stiphodon percnopterygionus invites a female and leads to a burrow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA4Qz3rKpDA




Male of Stiphodon percnopterygionus courting a female.


Male S.percnopterygionus, male S.atropurpureus


S.atropurpureus,"Blue moon"," Ranbow color"


Male "Rainbow color"


"Orange fin", "Ranbow color"


Male "Orange fin" is making a nest


Male S.atropurpureus

I need an advice : http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22263

Hello,

What an amazing thread!! I think I watch most of the pages...in two nights...


I just get crasy with Stiphodon, came back home and didn't find so much thing on internet about maintenance, just here finally.

As far as it seem to adapt in so many condition... I imagine that ph , temperature are different for most species? Where can I found this, especially for ritilaureus? In all level of the river and all the islands and the places...so does it mean that stiphodon is a kind of crasy fish and so strong that it can adapt in most of conditions? I don't find any notes about this on internet?

I had bought a group of 14 Stiphodon Rutilaureus, it is what the shop told me....They are living in a 140 L tanks with some Orysias Mekongensis and some caridinas japonicas...all look so great and seem to be well...the flue is strong but not enough probably, I will try to change...

They seem to be really well in the tank, going in all places and eat natural algae but I also test some tetra food special for pleco...and after few minutes most of the Stipho came at the place and seem that they was eating ...and after nothing was there...so I guess they eat it....even I have aroudn 40 caridina japonicas in the same tank, no one of them had the time to come and eat at the same place...a day after I put same food in a different place and same scene cometo my eyes..they all came around... Then they was looking so well, swimming and flying in my tank, from rocks to branches etc....


Here some pictures:

Perhaps you can confirm they are rutilaureus and also what or where I can read the best topic for giving them the best maintenance as possible!!

cheers