What is this?
Posted: 30 Mar 2008, 20:52
Got these given to me and he was told the are petricola. But after research I believe they are multipunctatus. Any ideas?
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Re: What is this?
Posted: 30 Mar 2008, 21:05
Yes multipunctatus - definately not petricola or lucipinnis - with the latter 2 species the 1st hard spine of the dorsal & pectorals is white, whereas in multipunctatus it's dark. It might be grandiops though which is extremely similar & can only be distinguished externally by a measure of eye diameter as a percentage of the head size
Re: What is this?
Posted: 30 Mar 2008, 21:26
cool thanks. How common is the grandiops? Or is it like petricola and lucipinnis in the sense that most petricola sold are in fact lucipinnis.
Re: What is this?
Posted: 30 Mar 2008, 21:38
To be honest, i don't know 
I am not sure if anyone has done any research on this in terms of hobbyists fishes - based on my 18 fishes - 8 were grandiops( i cut back to 9 overall, 4 grandiops) which as a crude figure suggests about 50% of imported wild specimens are actually grandiops
I am not sure if anyone has done any research on this in terms of hobbyists fishes - based on my 18 fishes - 8 were grandiops( i cut back to 9 overall, 4 grandiops) which as a crude figure suggests about 50% of imported wild specimens are actually grandiops
Re: What is this?
Posted: 30 Mar 2008, 21:42
nice pic! beauty synos! 
Re: What is this?
Posted: 31 Mar 2008, 06:07
Thanks again. At least I know they are not petricola. I was comparing them to my petricola babies and they just didnt look right.