calling angelfish experts(im looking your way copps!)

[dohc97]

I bought this fish as a false personifer but i am getting some black in the tail, im wondering if there are false personifers that get some black to the tail or if i really bought a personifer? pictures are not great due to being from my cellphone but its the best i can do right now. thanks for the help.

 

[copps]

Black in the tail like that is not uncommon for C. meredithi... it's the black stripe that is characteristic of C. personifer... they are both beautiful species... nice fish!

 

[dohc97]

thanks John, thats exactly what i wanted to know. I was not hoping for a true personifer just curious to know the real deal with regards to black in the tail. I love my Meredithi (her name is diablo ) and i follow along with your saying: buy fish that excite you regardless of price.

 

[myerst2]

Come on who wouldn't want to get a true personifier for the price of a false. The chances of it happening are 1-1,00000000000.

 

[dohc97]

i could swear it did happen to someone on here? the way prices have dropped on the true personifers i dont think it matters to me, now if someone would accidentally give me a personatus or peppermint when ordering a meredithi.................................

 

[melanotaenia]

that is definitely not a True Personnifer. Good looking fish though.

 

[SDguy]

My smaller female meredithi had the same look to the tail for a while. I found it to be related to stress or ich, actually. When she is "happy" and "content" for lack of better terms, her tail is bright yellow, just like the mael.

 

[dohc97]

interesting observation, mine just got out of a battle with ich about a month ago. I noticed the black came in while in treatment. She is not stressed at all considering she is the boss of the tank so we will see if the all yellow tail comes back.

 

[copps]

Black in the tail is not just from inducement of stress... here is a shot of a wild pair of meredithi... this genus (Chaetodontoplus) is very prone to ich and velvet with its small scales...

 

[dohc97]

those are beautiful, about how big are they? i might just pair up mine eventually.

 

[SDguy]

Black in the tail is not just from inducement of stress... here is a shot of a wild pair of meredithi... this genus (Chaetodontoplus) is very prone to ich and velvet with its small scales...

That's a male meredithi, with an almost solid black tail?

 

[copps]

Not sure how big exactly, but they appear to be grown adults... between 8 and 10 inches... how big is your fish?

 

[copps]

That's a male meredithi, with an almost solid black tail?

Hey Peter, the angle on that photo is a bit misleading... here are a couple more shots to better show the caudal fin...

 

[dohc97]

Mine is about 5.5-6" and does have some blue to the face but the cellphone camera did not really show it, its nothing like your pictures though. Hopefully i end up with that, thank you for those pictures.

 

[SDguy]

Interesting pics, John. Thank you. I wonder how much of the "darkness" actually has to do with lighting. Watch how the color changes from bright yellow to darker in this video as the fish swims...
http://australianmuseum.net.au/movie/Queensland-Yellowtail-Angelfish-Chaetodontoplus-meredithi

 

[copps]

Yeah... it's a bit of both... it is nowhere near the jet blackness of true personifer males...

 

[SDguy]

BTW your comment about the ich susceptibility is spot on, John (pun intended)

 

[copps]

yeah it's pretty icky looking (punning along with you... ):celeb2: Woo hoo it's Friday!