new heros

[fishop]

i recently acquired these heros from spencer jack.. he says they were imported from venezuala - he's trying to get more specific collection location information for me.. he thought they might be notatus.. oliver lucanus thinks they are an undescribed species.. they apparently came in mixed with a group of heros severus..

really nice colour, lots of iridescence, yellow cheeks, and the spots on the body are really red for most of these.. all of them have spots/markings on the cheeks - hopefully they are not all males.. some have red on the chest or throat area.. i'm hoping the last picture is female..

any thoughts from the heros experts?

brian

[Florent]

Look like Heros sp inirida, a beautiful species

[fishop]

yes that's it! thank u florent...

after some research i see that inirida has 8 bars and other species have 9 bars.. these fish have awesome colour right now, and i can see from the adult picture u posted that they are probably going to get better with age..

[smitty]

You have a great species there.

[Alex Odesit]

Beautiful Heros..
The youngsters looks Notatus to me, but I doubt Florent mistakes identifying SA cichlids.
Alex

[notho2000]

My 'notatus' have blackish dots on the body. These specimens show reddish dots. Also the breast area is pinkish. I know the differences are subtle. Actually, both Spencer and I thought they were 'notatus' initially as well. As @fishop mentioned, they came mixed in with some 'severus' (which they are not). But they could very well be 'sp. Inirida'. A cool find, to say the least. They're rare in our neck of the woods.
-Jim

[Alex Odesit]

Indeed good find Jim.

[zenins]

Verry Nice

I wish I had room for more Severums

[Lotsapetsgarfhts]

Those are really nice fish, I have only seen those once. I hope you can breed them and get some fry dristributed.

[sixar lewis]

stunning fish mate! i have 3 notatus juveniles myself now and was wanting to read up more on them. i dont spose any of you know of a book that specialises in heros do you?
i have thomas wiedners south amercan earth eaters book and was hoping there was something similar for these guys

thanks