Thanks for all the concern on the identification of these fish. If I misidentified, that means, also the importer, and several other wholesalers, and many hobbyists as well have mis-identified this fish. If that is the case, I will make it right with the owner of the fish, need not to worry.
As for mis-identifying baby bass its very easy, just remember, since the initial import back in 2007, there have been "zero" actual ones imported. This was the closest to one that I came to believing that it was the real thing. And even looking back at the pictures of when I first got them, they still look like intermedia to me.
So if they turn out other than intermedia, I will take full responsibility for them. When was the last time you've seen a vendor say that? All the past few years with the hundreds of imported and misidentified cichla that came in, where are they now?
