Gold or black wolf?

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A64C84AA-5D56-4AD7-81FA-F2CFA8751794.jpeg Yes. I’ve read that about h. Misiones a while back. More to think about lol.
Check the photo above. Some of the links I’ve saved over the years. Get a good idea what they are talking about, notice the cf mala (likely intermedius).
 
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They only three that have 6 pores I can find are brasiliensis, intermedius and lac.
It's not a lac.
My scale count could be off enough for it to be either of the two above.
Can we elaborate why it's not either of these?
I'm gonna look at it's tongue and see if it's smooth or got teeth on it...

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This one that kno4te kno4te and moe214 moe214 went over is very much like mine. Worth e re read. 6pores. Similar shape but 14".
 
Lol....watch those fingers when checking that tongue.
 
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Pic of line faded...

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Few more, almost has a green tint now he has settled some. Love this fish:-).

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Yea the pattern changes with mood I notice. There's a third pattern lol. Colors change along with it ofcourse.

The reason I say it isn't the species you mention, is because they are in the lac group and are supposed to have the U shaped under jaw folds. Yours has the V. So australis would be the only one in the lac group to consider. Because it is inbetween a U and V.

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Ok... Kno4te has confused me a little with the pics at the to showing CF. Mala and saying it's possibly intermedius, looks like my fish.
 
Ok... Kno4te has confused me a little with the pics at the to showing CF. Mala and saying it's possibly intermedius, looks like my fish.
Cf means related but undescribed. So what we call mala may very well be a different species but we know that. We just have to understand it isn't described lol and closest thing to it is mala.
 
Lol so I have a six pores Australis or mala likely lol... I'm getting to the point where I may give up and call it a wolf lol.
On another note the order still hasn't gone through, I'm more than tempted to get the black as well as the gold....
Probably asking for a disaster tho right?
 
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