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Petricolas from Atlantis
Posted: 02 Feb 2011, 18:23
by 11petro
Atlantis have wild petriolas listed for sale. Their website
http://www.cichlids.net/pages/fish.php? ... Tanganyika
Question for the experts here: are these the REAL petricolas?
Re: Petricolas from Atlantis
Posted: 02 Feb 2011, 19:24
by MatsP
Using this:
http://www.planetcatfish.com/shanesworl ... lucipinnis
I'd say that it's
. I'm basing this on:
1. Irregular shape spots that are fairly large.
2. "window" in the anal fin.
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Mats
Re: Petricolas from Atlantis
Posted: 02 Feb 2011, 21:53
by 11petro
That's what I thought too.
Re: Petricolas from Atlantis
Posted: 03 Feb 2011, 16:20
by MarkSmith
The photo that Atlantis has labelled as S. petricola is a stock photo that they've had in their files for some time. Whenever they get in what the Brichard's sell as S. petricola, this images usually is posted onto their site. Hard to say what they really have at the moment, as Atlantis has informed me that they ofen get in mixed species when they order S. petricola from the Brichard price list.
Re: Petricolas from Atlantis
Posted: 03 Feb 2011, 16:23
by MatsP
Mark, that is a good point. I wish sites that sell fish online would take pictures of the actual stock (at least for the more expensive and species that may be misidentified).
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Mats
Re: Petricolas from Atlantis
Posted: 03 Feb 2011, 17:56
by MarkSmith
Indeed. I notified Atlantis of that, and one of the employees indicated that they would try to post a photo of the actual species in hand.