Holy c**p!!! Notatus for sure!!

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quintas14

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First of all, sorry for the crap pic quality but i can't find my camera so i used my phone.
Anyway, i have 3 notatus left from the 6 i had to begin with. For a while now i've been swaying towards thinking they're normal greens due to their bad colour. In the 100uk gallon tank there is 3 Notatus @4" 1 Red spotted sev @5-6" 2 Gold @5-6" and 3 small firemouths.

The gold ones i gave my Grandfather in law to look after for a while and all of a sudden they started to eat his little fish so he asked me to take them back. Now at first i was worried to put them in with the Notatus and Red spotted due to the tank being a little small for that many fish.
However when i put them in the notatus actually started to colour up a little, however not enough to completely rid the underlying fear that they where infact normal greens.

So today i decided that my Giraffe Catfish was eating far to much of my poly's food so i took him to a friends shop.

So i get home and do a water change and then go out to the shops, only to be greeted back with the best colours i've ever seen on my little beautys :)

I know they're still small so the colour won't be at it's best yet. however there is now no doubt in my mind that they are Notatus.

So here is a few really bad pics that i took with my phone. I will take better ones with a camera when the wife gets back and retrieves it from God only knows where....

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I think Brewster's are actually Inirida and not notatus.

Notatus when older will look like this. I hope mine are like it when full grown.

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guyana will be the area where they're caught. But they haven't been given a scientific name yet so it could become anything. Like rotkeil being an "sp" of efasciatus but not actually being an efasciatus.
 
here's a photo of a rapps pair of notatus
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they show very similar characteristics to brewsters as well as others if you search for pics on yahoo. im just not seeing it in yours

i know guyana is the are they are caught but notatus are often refered to as Heros "guyana".

i hope yours are notatus though. im still trying to find some over here myself but no one has them :( keep us updated!!
 
Shure will old bean. And as i said, they're still young, so all i can do is hope hope hope....
 
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