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Steel Blue?

boyohboy

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Just saw these in my LFS. They'r labeled as Viejita... but kinda look like the elusive Steel Blue hybrid(?), is it? Sorry for the blurry pics... taken with my cell phone and the tank was pretty dark in the store.

Kinda tempting for me to buy a few, only $6-7@... too bad it looks like all male there :(

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aquaticclarity

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Even with the blurry pics the fish do look to be "steel blue". Females often look just like males in a store's tank so look closely and watch for a "pair" taking over a part of the tank.

A very pretty fish if you don't mind the stigma of a hybrid/mystery origin fish.

Jeff
 

boyohboy

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Thanks aquaticclarity, yeah I was standing in front of that tank for 10min staring at them to see if there's any pairing. Didn't notice any yet... but I'm sure i'll be back few more times to look at them.


apisto-nut, it's in a LFS here in Kingston... so about 3hr east of u :)


BTW, is there any new info about this SteelBlue stain? I only read about it like 2 years ago... not sure what's new, if any. Is it still pretty much a mystery?
 

matt0129081

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I was just going to send a picture of these in to get an id. I bought a pair they were labelled as borelli but I didn't think they were. Turned out the guy in the shop sold me two males. I'm looking for a female if anyone knows of any
 

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