Picked Up a LEICHARDTI Today

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nice find! sorry if this is derailing but can someone point out the ways to distinguish leichardti and jardinis? what are the obvious physical signs because to my untrained eye i can't notice much.
 
wow. i can actually tell the differnce from the be4 and after pictures. it seems like it got a lot bulkier. and plus the red spots came out a lot this time.

piscavore- jardinis turn black when bigger with red at the end of every scale. leichartdis dont have barbells bright silver color with a red spot in the center of every scale also when bbigger the fins may be red depending on other ****
 
If you look real close @ shot 1 & 2, they do have barbles. Steve's lei has barbles, and another pic that was posted recently also had a pair. Little different shape though.
 
Leichardtis have way bigger barbels than jardini.

They also hang down.
 
These are the barbels..

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wow thats a crazy ass lei. that is crazy red. do u know what aquafan was feeding it.?
 
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