Yup that's how their labeled, you guessed it......If I remember correct they even had a pic and the info for the little african upside down with a Max size of 3 inches....lol

I cringe at the thought of suggesting this, but the specimen I had up till recently I obtained from of all places a Wal-Mart at a size less than 3 inches and my Wal-mart almost always has at least a few in stock....

Cool, thanks....How is it you can tell the difference between the males and females???

Just picked these up at what appears to have been a steal of deal as they were mixed in with other cories. The shop owner looked said they were melinis' after checking his stock list and said they shouldn't have been mixed in the tank that they were sold to me out of for less then $3 each :d Figured ...

Thanks, again closer guesses than I've been able to manage. In the next week or two he'll be getting moved into a bigger tank, hopefully I can find a better container to be able to photograph him up close when I need to move him out.

Thanks so much, your right thats pretty close except for that fin, been a long time lurker and reader of the forums, finally figured I look for an expert opinion since i had him cornered today......heres a few older pics from the last time I moved him to a different tank.....Since separating him ...

Purchased him a little over a year ago, last one out of a tank of labeled pictus....knew from the start he wasn't any sort of regular pictus, that I've ever seen. He only ever comes out after dark so got these couple pics during a through tank cleaning....His scarred dorsal and tail fin are from ...