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A costumer brought this in to my work the other day. I know it's a petricola or a luci. The question is, which one?

I've been looking for decent size pets for my 40 gallon saulosi tank, and I found this one. He's currently floating in the bag acclimating to the tank.

So, is it a pet or a luci?

Thanks!

~Andrew

p.s. if you need better pics I can take more.

IMHO

What makes you say that?

I was looking at the pics in teh catelog, and I couldn't find anything different from one species to the other.

Is this the same fish in both pics?

The second pic looks like petricola IMHO, the first pic seems to show the fish has less patterning on the flank suggesting lucipinnis, but the head shape looks a bit more like petricola.

My vote is petricola

yup....same fish.

I'll stick with Petricola - it looks a fairly small individual - how big is it?

It's about 3.5 inches

Not a bad size then. i'm sticking with Petricola

2nd pic looks like petricola ... doesn't look like the same fish though.

zenyfish wrote:2nd pic looks like petricola ... doesn't look like the same fish though.

My thoughts exactly zenyfish although apparently it is the same individual

Richard B wrote:

zenyfish wrote:2nd pic looks like petricola ... doesn't look like the same fish though.

My thoughts exactly zenyfish although apparently it is the same individual

Look at the distance between the dorsal and the adipose, they are not the same? And the spotting around the nose looks different.

IT doesn't look like teh same fish, but it is. lol

I"ll try to get more pics later.

I had looked at the first fish mostly and went with lucipinnis but I like the others would have called the second picture a different fish.
I can see why they consider it a petricola though with further consideration.