They have several Rotkeils at one of the LFS, the price 30.00 dollars per fish, that seems a bit high to me, or do you think I should purchase one at this price.
djim , How big are the $30 Rotkeils ? 8 inch Rotkeils are about $40 and the babies ( 2 inches ) are about $7 here at the local fishstores ... I hear they are ( like Chocalate Cichlids ) are extremely slow growing , so maybe $40 for a 8 inch fish is a good deal ?
The OP's fish is a H. sp. "Rotkeil" and that's what it should be called. Some people do call it red shoulder for apparent reasons. It would be hard to understand why it would be called "red head".
djim , How big are the $30 Rotkeils ? 8 inch Rotkeils are about $40 and the babies ( 2 inches ) are about $7 here at the local fishstores ... I hear they are ( like Chocalate Cichlids ) are extremely slow growing , so maybe $40 for a 8 inch fish is a good deal ?
We just looked at the Rotkeil Severums they are all 2-4 inches long, and are showing red only on the anal and dorsal fins no red on the heads. and the price is 30.00 dollars per fish.
djim , How big are the $30 Rotkeils ? 8 inch Rotkeils are about $40 and the babies ( 2 inches ) are about $7 here at the local fishstores ... I hear they are ( like Chocalate Cichlids ) are extremely slow growing , so maybe $40 for a 8 inch fish is a good deal ?
We just looked at the Rotkeil Severums they are all 2-4 inches long, and are showing red only on the anal and dorsal fins no red on the heads. and the price is 30.00 dollars per fish.
The price around here has dropped dramatically in the last few years as they have become more common. Around $7 for 2'' to 3" fish seems to be the norm, which is about 3 times wholesale. The anal fins should be orange and the heads are blue. This will show before the shoulder turns red.
I'd think they are all the essentially the same as the OP's fish though...do you think the difference in barring patterns is significant enough to classify them into different "species"?
Might be confusing because male rotkeil has a fair amount of red on the face, and females don't (pretty much all blue).
The red shoulders have never had barring. THe one other person in our club that has them has never noticed barring either.
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