I have had him for about a month or so. He has already grown and left the firemouth behind in size. But I was told he was a synspillum. Turns out from my observation, he doesnt seem to be one! Not really looking like one at this point. I have posted the pics at another forum and still having problems. So maybe someone here may know!

I am tossed up between if its a Paratheraps synspilus or a Paratheraps bifasciatus. Both should not get as big as the former. and should top out at around 8-10 inches.


What do you all think?

This is when I first got him



this is a month later, (took these last night) You can see a size and coloration difference already!






SOOOO... what do we think??

i think its ugly lol

100% guess here, but im going to say a severum of some sort.

to me it doesnt look like a bifasciatus but more like a synspilus. but there is something that isnt quite right about that one either. maybe as it ages i could give a more concrete id but at this point i cannot be 100% sure.
there is also the possibility that its a hybrid......



@win..........its a lot nicer than convicts are.......

I agree it is ugly. It really looks like a weird colored terror.

Haven't got a clue. The first picture looked a bit like a blue acara but then it changed dramatically. After doing some comparisons I would say it looks more like a Paratheraps synspilus than the other one you mentioned, but like I say, I haven't got a clue. Cris is the one that should be able to answer your question

necromancer4 wrote:



define nicer lol, it might be better mannored than a convict, but that fish will never be as pretty as this one




lol who said convicts were nice anyways?? i only have them to feed their young to my other fish lol.

the only thing worth having that even closely resemble a convict is an hrp. and with them only if their first or second generation from wild caught. no matter how nice you think your walmart cons are, they are just plain cons.


to the op my appologies for derailing your thread

they dont sell con's at walmart, and why did you even bring them up if you were going to be disrespectful to me and my fish like that???

Win wrote:



lets see who was being disrespectful

the op physically asked what we thought of it too and if we could id it. i thought it was ugly, and i guessed the type. just as OP asked. i wasnt rude to OP i just dont like the look of that fish, it looks kind of like a hybrid pink/black convict in the way that one patch of wierd pinkish fleshtone color behind the gill plate is compared to the rest of the fish infact reminds me alot of the pink/black convict offspring i saw as feeders in a tank, they were indeed ugly. no offense. that is not those tho, that just reminded me of it. sorry to have seen things get taken personally. i just wouldnt have expected that from you, since your a mod. i hope you get over it, i already have.

Alright Boys... enough... to your corners and play nice!

just as i was about to put the dog on him...




lol no hard feelings to anyone! sorry for the missunderstanding.