help to id my new pikes..

[j.r]

hi i came home from the petstore 2day with these two lovely pikes, they are caught in tapajos and that was all the info the poor lady in the pet-store had about these two. So i was hoping u guys and maybe girls? could help me out a bit here.. one of them has some black markings over the head much like the xinguI but it deffinetly isnt a xinguI..

 

[its_an_obsession]

top one... maybe a really skiiny belly crawler and bottom one is possibly a lenticulata. hard to say. more photos would help. seems like there pretty stressed.

 

[Optimist]

First one is Crenicichla macrophthalma. Awesome pickup!

 

[killerfish]

Definatily a Macrophthalma on top

Not sure about the bottom one but it looks like a lent can you get a pic that shows its upper side

 

[CrystalizedHairs]

I wouldn't think lent for the second one. Even stressed out you should see some blotches.

 

[j.r]

thanks alot u guys.. yes i guess they are prettys stressed, i dont think they like the bagging and catching much ill try to take some more pics a bit later today.. i was thinking maybe one of them was a ven, but as i said ill try to get some better pics later today..

 

[j.r]

ive been trying to get some better pics but these guys are shy and still dont come out much.. so i have been able to get some pics of my dwarfs, and of what i maybe think is sax`s? theyr bought as geayii (the dwarfs) and lepidotas (sax?) but i know that the petstores around here dont know much about these fish so i feel i cant really thrust them om the whole id thing.. was hoping u guys could help me out once again as i trust the pike knowlege here on m-f far more than my local petstore.. and after reading and looking around im not sure at all any more on wich type these two are, the one bought as geayii are dwarfs that i am sure of, but the one bought as lepidota is what i would call "mid-size" not big but doesnt look like dwarfs either..