Help ID wolf.

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Mudfrog;2393166; said:
It's a Red Wolf. :) He looks good. How big is he?

Do you have a lid for your tank? They can jump so be careful.
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Umm, hard to say probably 6". Thanks for the ID. Hes getting dark dots all over, is this normal? Nothing has changed, and hes still active and healthy (maybe a little obese haha).

I dont have a lid, but have had him for a good 6 months. I need to get a lid though.

The only time he seemed unhealthy was after eating a puffer fish, i think puffers have some neurtoxins or something they realease? But he would swim violently and hit the gass for no reason for a week after that.
 
yeah, hes awesome! here are the spots im refering to:
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Mudfrog;2393878; said:
I've seen the spots on gold wolves.. my red does not have them.
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cool, anybody know what they are? and how can you tell its an ery ery and not an Hoplerythrinus unitaeniatus?
 
It's not an Ery ery.. it looks more like a Erythrinus Sp. Peru, which is still a red wolf but not an ery ery. The main difference is one has orange on it's top fins while one has orange mainly on it's body.

At first I thought it could be a gold wolf but the head shape looks off, i've never kept a gold though so I could be wrong.
 
Mudfrog;2394042; said:
It's not an Ery ery.. it looks more like a Erythrinus Sp. Peru, which is still a red wolf but not an ery ery. The main difference is one has orange on it's top fins while one has orange mainly on it's body.

At first I thought it could be a gold wolf but the head shape looks off, i've never kept a gold though so I could be wrong.
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Cool! Thanks, I thought all red wolfs were erythrinus erythrinus, guess not. Is there a chart/thread with pictures of each species?
 
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