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Kokoro
Mon Jul 09, 2007, 01:05 AM
I'm starting to think these are dicrozoster. Anyone agree? You can see a faint opercular mark in the first photo. It was darker this morning, but i never seem to catch it in a photo

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa62/Kokoro1987/IMG_2784.jpg
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa62/Kokoro1987/IMG_2783.jpg
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa62/Kokoro1987/IMG_2774.jpg
chevguy
Mon Jul 09, 2007, 12:13 PM
Very hard to tell at that size but the fourth vertical bar on Dicrozoster comes up into a Y shape. The majority of fish that are labelled and sold as Dicrozoster are in actual fact Abalios. Still trying to locate true Dicrozoster myself?
Kokoro
Tue Jul 10, 2007, 02:06 AM
hmm.. now i look closer, the Y (in the 2nd photo) is on the 3rd bar so probably not dicrozoster.. I don't think Abalios either, as there is an opercular mark which i have yet to catch clearly in a photo
BJL82
Tue Jul 10, 2007, 02:35 PM
7 bars, 4th passes through the black spot, 4th also links to the 5th bar and you've also noticed a preopercular black mark... I'm pretty confident its a dicrozoster :)
chevguy
Wed Jul 11, 2007, 12:12 AM
Good eye's Brendan,i didn't even notice that. :oops: I wasn't saying that they were Abalios. Looking at the point that Brendan pointed out they might just be Dicrozoster. :)
BJL82
Wed Jul 11, 2007, 12:05 PM
Good eye's Brendan,i didn't even notice that. :oops: I wasn't saying that they were Abalios. Looking at the point that Brendan pointed out they might just be Dicrozoster. :)

Cheers mate, happy to help.

Pet city, upper Mt Gravatt have Dicro's but their $$$$$
*Chris*
Mon Jul 30, 2007, 02:24 AM
we have dicrozoster at subscape in melbourne a heap of them