herefishiefishie Posted July 21, 2007 Report Share Posted July 21, 2007 Seen more pics, not utaka spots, just the odd smudge like spot. Frenchy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afrikan Posted July 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2007 Thanks for having a good squizz Frenchy, and I should have you over here taking photos, since you have no hair :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
callum Posted July 21, 2007 Report Share Posted July 21, 2007 Im trying to find some more females but there really hard to come across. anybody know where i could get some? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanuts Posted July 21, 2007 Report Share Posted July 21, 2007 i have to say when i first saw the pic i to thought beanschi but now im not to sure.when these fish are imported are they all from the same batches?,from my understanding they are farmed.do you think that it would be possiable for the supplier to have several batches of jacobs of different variants in different tanks and come time to make the order for whoever it is that buys for good ole nz,wants say 150 that they make up the batch from several tanks. just a thought i had cause with the difference in this lot they just don't look right to me.i also got some from the recent shipment which i recieved the same week as africans lot and yet the banding and colour of mine is closer to callums than africans but that is not to say africans arent jacobs,there are too many variants to be sure but seen as we dont get variants here we have to make do with what we get.it is a bad thing that we have no variants here. do the importers/exporters say a jake is a jake no matter where in the lake their ancesters come from.maybe we should talk to the importers see if they can shed any light sorry guys for the longwinded reply for this i apoligise glenn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afrikan Posted July 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2007 Hey don't be sorry Glenn, those were very good points to make... I often wonder about exporters and making up orders... however, the male I have is definately not Baenschi, I have Baenschi, totally different, and different patterning in finnage etc, and colouring, my boy is more mustard/orange/brown (pretty stunning actually, colouring I haven't seen before).. with very dark purple/blue banding through the body, so hard to get a fish looking exactly as the eye sees it in a photo, well at least camera of our quality :-? :lol: Maybe your LFS could order in some more for you callum, they are still on the list... could you possibly get some pics of your male and females that you already have, without camera flash at some stage, really keen to see your batch 8) I will ask hubby to ring the supplier tomorrow and ask about these "jacobs" that came in.. possibly they got sent more than one lot.. will have some confirmation tomorrow hopefully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malawi_man Posted July 22, 2007 Report Share Posted July 22, 2007 Got a few pics of my dom. jacob male. These next 2 give you a better idea of his colour Here is one of my sub dominant baenschi. and a random one of my marleri colouring up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malawi_man Posted July 22, 2007 Report Share Posted July 22, 2007 I see what you mean by them looking different in pictures Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afrikan Posted July 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2007 Ummm Dan that's exactly how my male started before he developed his maturing colouration. My ones top fin also had a thick band of white but has thinned down with finnage colour travelling higher (if that makes sense) same with tail. And yeah photos definately don't show what is seen by the human eye huh. My Baenschi male is exactly like yours too, but more intense colouration due to being the dominant boy of the tank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malawi_man Posted July 22, 2007 Report Share Posted July 22, 2007 yeah, my dominant baenschi male is awesome, the tank that the baenschi are in is very hard to photograph though because it is only about 20cm off the ground and it has an aquaclear 500 sitting on the front. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
callum Posted July 22, 2007 Report Share Posted July 22, 2007 tried to get a pic of them but there going to spawn very soon and the little buggers just wont stay still!! mine are the same as dans fish that he posted a pic of I think its Otter Point?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afrikan Posted July 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2007 Mine is exactly as Dans also but a heap more intense in colour, his is how mine was before he really matured in colouration, his colour is really vivid and intense. We can't state what they are in species due to the fact that they came in as no given variant, just Jacobs. There are rather a few variants of Jacobs and even then a certain given variant shows different colourations on sites I have seen. So the newly imported Jacobs are unknown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
callum Posted July 22, 2007 Report Share Posted July 22, 2007 Just checking, LFS stands for local fish shops ae?? and I got some pics of my jacobs, just have to wait till my dad gets home with his laptop so i can post them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afrikan Posted July 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2007 Yeah local fish store or shop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
callum Posted July 22, 2007 Report Share Posted July 22, 2007 here are some more pics male under his cave male dom female cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afrikan Posted July 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2007 Awesome, thanks for the pics callum... 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
callum Posted July 23, 2007 Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 Great news!! Female holding today. :bounce: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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