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wild fish?

blueblue

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I have read a fish from the following link posted by a trader:
http://my.so-net.net.tw/bigrice/ap_agazizii_itaya_super_red.htm
He claims on his web that it is a wild fish from Rio Itaya...

From my experience, i am very sure that it's a fish inherited
from the tank-bred double red aggie (i.e. should be called a tank-bred
fish, F1, F2, ...)!! ... or it is a fish coming from the trick
that the infant fish are basically tank-bred, and then all are placed inside a net floating in the Amazon river (i.e. so-called "wild!!")... and the fish are then kept and sold as wild fish!!

In fact, the real wild "red-tail" Aggie from Rio Itaya are the parents of the
double-red aggie that we find in the market today... Of course, the tail will never ever be as red as the one showing in the link.

What do you think?
 

Mike Wise

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They do look too colorful for wild caught red aggies to me. I have seen photos of similarly colored fish from the wild, but the red was not so extensive.
 

kribs

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I have seen a lot of aggies Wild and Tank Raised but i have never seen a wild with that deep color like th pic or the extended color. I have seen Double Reds that look like that always though.
 

blueblue

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Thanks Mike and Kribs very much for the comments.
So, are there any friends who have seen a wild fish
like this one? I personally have never ever seen a real
wild fish like this one...
 

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