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This was sold to me as petricola. Can anyone ID this? The body color isn't as greenish as some other ones I have. also the white edge on the back of the dorsal isn't as prevalent on my other fish also. Could this be a hybrid?

My Hybrid #1 looked almost exactly like that when he was a juvenile.

So, based on what my fish looked like when he was a juvenille, you unfortunately may be correct, your friend is not a purebred. I bought mine knowing it was not, so I can absolutely understand your frustration.

Perhaps one of the experts will weigh in with their opinion.

If it is any condolence he has grown into a very handsome fish.

jd_7655 wrote: ↑06 Aug 2017, 18:11 Could this be a hybrid?

Pic unavailable to me.

Sorry I was having a problem with photobucket I think it's fixed now.

looks to me like a grandiops

To me it looks about right but I cannot tell the notorious differences between petricola and lucipinnis. All I know is that for every true petricola, there are thousands of lucipinnis in the trade / hobby but almost all lucis are erroneously labeled as petri.

I don't think it is a hybrid but if it was, it'd be the first time I see this kind and it wouldn't be hybrid #1 in Cat-eLog, in fact, I don't think we have one that would look like this in Cat-eLog at all.

The original photos show a fish with white on the front of the dorsal and also at the back of the dorsal...this is not right for any species of tanganikan syno...petricola / lucipinnis
have the white on the front ray of the dorsal. Multipunctatus / grandiops have white at the rear of the dorsal. I have seen this before and think it is a hybrid of some sort.

Birger