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[Bowdy]

could someone please tell me what veriant t reef this guy is he the pec and anal fins are both bright red also has a lot of red through the tail and the top edge of his top fin is red to if anyone knows let me know cheers.
p.s. sorry bout the bad pics cheers

[tranced]

look alot like mine, where did u get him from?

[Bowdy]

What veriant are yours.

[tranced]

dunno, but they look very similar... where did u buy him?

[Bowdy]

Mate put me onto a nice colony and that's the male. He looks awesome.

[tranced]

yeah he is quality got any shots of the females?

[Bowdy]

O don't have any I can take one if you really want. The larger female has a some blue in her face she looks good to.

[highlucks]

I was under the impression that "Taiwan Reef" was a locality of protomelas (spelling).

I may be wrong though

[Bowdy]

Sorry protomelas steveni what veriant is he.

[gibbs]

You already know what it is mate. It's a "taiwan reef". There is no variant of taiwan reef apart from the albino variant.

Your fish is Protomelas sp. "Steveni Taiwan" (Taiwan Reef). Taiwan Reef is a variant of "Steveni Taiwan" inwhich species like "Chimoto", "Higga Reef" etc are all geographical variants of. Your fish is the Taiwan reef variant of the "Steveni Taiwan".

[Bowdy]

See that's were I am not fully sure about. I think it looks more like Chimoto then Taiwan reef and that's why I have put this post up to get some feed back from people.

[danotaylor]

Bowdy check out this link...this is a juvie "Taiwan Reef Chimoto" Az posted up a while back...looks a fair bit more yellow than yours...I don't know much about this species so I'll leave the final opinion up to you...

Cheers mate,

Danny

http://www.perthcich...showtopic=34573

[Bowdy]

Cheers mate there are pics of an adult chimoto on malawi dreams and looks a lot like mine I thort but I don't really know that's why I'm asking so I'm not selling fry that are something different to what I think they are.

[Bowdy]

Maybe az could be of some help

[tranced]

well if i was a 'picturebook ichthyologist' i would say they look alot like the ones from higga reef, aka chimoto red.

[Bowdy]

Hmmm they do look very close

[Fox]

Maybe az could be of some help

well if i was a 'picturebook ichthyologist' i would say they look alot like the ones from higga reef, aka chimoto red.

When I got my Chimoto's there were a few getting around, Im not 100% on my as yet as he still hasnt developed full color.
I would say the above pic was Protomelas sp. 'steveni taiwan' from Higga Reef as Nico has stated, but in saying that, some Higga Reef specimens are fully blue with red anal fin.. Like HERE

Here's some info:
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[Bowdy]

Thanks az
It's s hard one cause I would like a couple more female but want to look for the right ones. He is definently not all blue his pec and anal fins profit red also tail has red and along top fin.
Il have fry ready in bout 6weeks also so I would like to label them right so people know what there getting.

So higga reef is Also called chimoto red ?

[fishboy]

Bowdy you have a very nice fish.

The Chimoto i got from Midland have the same body shape and same blue head as the fish above but they have more yellow rolled through the body and the anal fins are top half black and bottom half fire red. i can not take photos as i dont have a camera but i will see if i can sort something out. when they are in full spawning colour they look amazing and im assume they will only get better as the males are still only around the 7cm and not fully mature. i have kept Taiwan Reef before and the colour patterns on my chimoto are different and are different to the fish pictured above.

please note i am no expert on these fish and do not pretend to be.

[Bowdy]

Hehe maybe I need to get someone to come have a look