Chilatherina fasciata "Pagai River"

[Christophe]

As you can see, sometimes the males do appear nearly golden overall - and minutes later red and purple with some green, etc..

Cheers

Christophe

[Gunther]

The very first photo in this thread, it's out of focus. But that's how they mostly look like for me. It's yellow/golden. But not brilliant.
When in the mood, one is like on Christophe's photos. The other has purple in stead of red.

[Dirk G.]

Hi,

As you can see, sometimes the males do appear nearly golden overall - and minutes later red and purple with some green, etc.

Exactly, if the males are in the "mood" they get dark and red/purple/green/blue intensifies, you see the typical black vertical fasciata-stripes. If they are calm, the yellow-golden colour comes more out, you see this in 2 of Christophe's photos. What I like most with these chilatherinas, but is impossible to catch in a 2-dimensional static photo, is the changing of the structural colors (yellow-green-red-blue) due to motion - like the sparkling of a jewel...

But if you are looking for the real golden colour, you should have a look at the females - like pure gold! Don't underrate the females

[Joël]

Hi,

These pictures make me look forward to my own Chilatherina fasciata Pagai I got from Johannes 2 months ago. Mine are still very little (2 - 2,5 cm) and still show no colours, but I can see they will become very, very nice looking fish.

As a precaution, I already gave away the Chilatherina fasciata Faowi I had (among which a big male of 13 cm!!!) because their colour scheme is quite close - especially for females - and I don't want to take any risk of mixing both species.

I took the same precaution when I got Chilatherina fasciata Clear water Creek (also from Johannes) and got rid of my Chilatherina sentianensis because both females look very similar too.

Cheers,

Joël

[Christophe]

Some more pics..

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[Hans]

Very nice colouring on these fish! I must keep this species in mind.

What's the other fish on the pictures?

[Adrian]

Very nice Christophe, very nice!

Adrian

[Christophe]

What's the other fish on the pictures?

Hi Hans
It's Etroplus canarensis, a dwarf cichlid from South-Western India (Karnataka). I have a group of 6. It is probably the most peaceful cichlid I've ever had, and it displays a true schooling behaviour - much more than the rainbows
I hope to be able to breed them soon, they have only been bred rarely and were first imported some years back, after the species had been "lost" for more than a century.
Cheers
Christophe

[the solitaire]

Still rather small (under 3"/7cm TL) but these are really nice fish



The fish should be about 6 months old. When i got them they were about 1"/2,5cm TL. I have the fish in my tank since february now and they are growing rather quickly.

[Hans]

They have a real nice colour pattern. I like these very much! Especially the red/orange in the fins.

[the solitaire]

My few fasciata "Pagai River" grew quite quickly in the last few weeks. They are almost full sized fish now



I´m still in awe of the variations in colour these fish show, all very subtle, but all very much like a well composed painting.
One thing I have not yet managed to capture is the intense orange/yellow stripe they can summon from their nose across the back.

[killiguy]

They are gorgeous fish.They look a bit similar to the Mamberamo form with that lovely red tail.
Slightly off topic but how big do fasciata strains get.I was reading a TFH article my Hans Mayland on rainbows of Irianjaya and he state that fasciata "mamberamo"got to 8 inches.I found that hard to believe

[the solitaire]

Most strains grow up to 5 or 6" in size. The mamberano strain grows considerably larger somehow

[the solitaire]

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