What are these 2 spotty creatures

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trebor69
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What are these 2 spotty creatures

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Hope these pics are good enough.
What are these 2?
And are they 2 different kinds of fish?

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2nd fishy
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They appear to be two separate species (IMO). If I were to guess, I would say fish 1 is contradens, fish 2 is L201.
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Re: What are these 2 spotty creatures

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nvcichlids wrote:They appear to be two separate species (IMO). If I were to guess, I would say fish 1 is contradens, fish 2 is L201.
That's funny, I would guess the opposite way around.
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I think you do have two different species,fish 1 is a contradens and second fish is a L201.The contradens are often confused with the L201,with the L201 having a more slender and flatter body to the contradens,who has a more high bodied.The L201 also have more finer spots to the more larger spots contradens.
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