'lipstick' pencilfish ??

[rasmusW]

Hey!
I know this thread is a bit old by now, but i just browsed through aquarium glasers archieve and saw this nannostromus.
Maybe yours are some form of these. Nannostromus erythrurus.

Link

-r

 

[anewbie]

Hey!
I know this thread is a bit old by now, but i just browsed through aquarium glasers archieve and saw this nannostromus.
Maybe yours are some form of these. Nannostromus erythrurus.

Link

-r

I suspect not - the pictures on glasser website seems quite different. This is glasser picture:

(link to glasser which compares these to triffs:

Nannostomus erythrurus - Aquarium Glaser GmbH

The three-banded pencilfish, Nannostomus trifasciatus, is one of the most popular ornamental fish. It combines numerous characteristics that make it desirable: beautiful coloration, peaceful nature, small size, and easy feeding. However, few people know that the name “Nannostomus trifasciatus”...

www.aquariumglaser.de

And my picture from the previous page:

I also no longer think they are trifs in disguise since they lack the red bar above the center black bar

 

[rasmusW]

Yeah! I see more red in yours, but otherwise i can’t see much difference. That’s why I said “some form of”.
But I don’t see them everyday like you do. So you probably see something I don’t.

Anyway. It was just a thought

-r

 

[anewbie]

Yeah! I see more red in yours, but otherwise i can’t see much difference. That’s why I said “some form of”.
But I don’t see them everyday like you do. So you probably see something I don’t.

Anyway. It was just a thought

-r

Well - i was 'talking' to someone abut this on another forum and he said that most classified erythrurus as a form of trifs and it was only recently that glasser started to reclassify them as erythrurus again - so in that sense they might all be triffs despite the colour differences.

 

[anewbie]

Yeah! I see more red in yours, but otherwise i can’t see much difference. That’s why I said “some form of”.
But I don’t see them everyday like you do. So you probably see something I don’t.

Anyway. It was just a thought

-r

I just took a look a tom's page and this is the ones that he classified as trifs - i believe it includes all three forms:

Welcome to Toms Homepage

 

[Mike Wise]

The genus Nannostomus need a major re-work. Many of the species are certainly multiple species.

 

[rasmusW]

The genus Nannostomus need a major re-work. Many of the species are certainly multiple species.

Next project?

-r

 

[Mazan]

There certainly seem to be a lot of varieties around that look similar but different....