Geophagus ID please

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The fish in those pictures have too many bars to be G. winemilleri. They look similar to my G. brachybranchus which were erroneously sold to me as G. winemilleri. They may also be G. dicrozoster but I'm not home right now and I can't pull up the identifying marks for them. I don't remember off the top of my head.

However, someone bought fish from that supplier and the fish they received did not match these pictures, so you have a case of a double mislabeling IMO.
 
ryansmith83 said:
The fish in those pictures have too many bars to be G. winemilleri. They look similar to my G. brachybranchus which were erroneously sold to me as G. winemilleri. They may also be G. dicrozoster but I'm not home right now and I can't pull up the identifying marks for them. I don't remember off the top of my head.

However, someone bought fish from that supplier and the fish they received did not match these pictures, so you have a case of a double mislabeling IMO.
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Well that is just great.... Thanks for the info. I will continue my search and steer clear of this supplier. I won't lives though, I wouldn't mind getting some dicrozoster.

Now I know that actual Geo. surinamensis are incredibly rare, but I've seen a few places list them as available stock. What are some of the more common species I would find being accidentally mislabeled as surinamensis?


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Usually an altifrons variant, or sometimes abalios. "Surinamensis" is a catch-all name that a lot of exporters use for any geo, particularly the ones in the surinamensis complex. I've even seen orange heads mislabeled as surinamensis at my LFS, and despite my conversation with the store owner and showing her pictures, she refused to re-label them.
 
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