S.Petricola or S.Lucipinnis?

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S.Petricola or S.Lucipinnis?

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http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1142/125 ... 7d.jpg?v=0
Only 1" long , I picked them up as S.Petricola.
What yer think?
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lucipinnis

these are captive breds and few people breed the true petricola

i've bred them and even at a tiny size the true petricola has many small spots on the head.
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Thank you sidguppy, as I suspected.
Luckly I didnt pay much ££ for them. 8)
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Post by sidguppy »

still very nice fishes; my first bunch of Tanganyikan cats were a group of lucipinnis wich I build up gradually.

i started with 1.....a wee lil' 1 inch baby 'petricola', since they had only 1. :lol:
bought 2 other about 6 months after that, 2 subadults arrived about 6 months later (gift from Marc) and then 1 big female as lastcomer. that group bred and bred and bred.......

S lucipinnis is well worth keeping IMO.
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I had seen them a week before actually buying them.
I thought as long as there Petricola or lucipinnis and not hybrids they look like fun.
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