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My fish were sold as opallios and have just begun to show some colour in their finnage, at last. I’ve taken a still picture from a video that I’ve uploaded to YouTube. I know that there’s insufficient graphical information positively to identify them as opallios, but is there anything there that would rule out the possibility that they are?
Incidentally – somewhere on the forum there’s discussion about how inappropriate a name is ‘Licorice’. I don’t know whether these exist in other parts of the world, but in UK we have a sweets (candies/lollies) called ‘humbugs’.
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As you said already, it is impossible to identify your fish positively as being opallios. All species of the bintan-harveyi-group, especially thos with more or less red in the unpaired fins (opallios, rubrimontis, tweediei, phoenicurus, could only be determined safely by very good, clear pictures.
But your question is: Does anything rule it out that it is opallios? And the answer is: No. On the contrary: There are some indications that it could be. The light-blue filaments of the ventrals, for instance. The faint indication of red in the back-part of the dorsal, the clear blackish marking at the outer end of the fins and the faint bluish line before: that all is characteristic of opallios. But not of it only, that’s the problem. We wait for better pictures!
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