I know that these are not Sterbai.

Fish 1,2 & 3 were bought together as sterbai, but I think they are haraldschultzi.

Fish 4,5 & 6 were returned to a shop that had been selling large wild caught sterbai a month previously and the shop re-sold them as wild caught sterbai, I don't think they are and I don't think they are haraldschultzi either, any ideas?

This link will show the six photos that are numbered, sorry they are not in the correct order. Click on any photo to see larger and if you want really large then click, "All Sizes".

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Grateful of any opinions. BTW I know No 6 has a bad mouth it was like that when I got it, about 6 months ago and it has not got any worse.


Daragh

In my opinion, it is a haraldschultzi as the strebai the dots or black spots are denser rather than linera and sparse as compared to the haraldschultzi

they are most probably Haraldschltzi as sterbai have white spots from eye to snout. I have found that is the easiest way to ident.. other than that, it is very hard to differentiate as patterning is varied.

HTH

Adam

Cheers guys, the verdict from CorydorasWorld was haraldschultzi too. I am glad as I would prefer to have six of them, rather than there haralds and three something else. They first three have lived with my sterbai group for about a year and no sign of spawning from either of them. I have separated them out now and given the sterbai a new tank where I can concentrate on them,

Daragh