S. leucosticta or S. jurupari?

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Here is everyone's favorite question...

I rescued this fish a few months ago from my LFS and he is doing 100% better than when I first got him. Of course he was sold to me as an S. jurupari, but based on some reading that I have done on these forums, I think he is an S. leucosticta. Any opinions?

Also, is there are reliable way to sex these fish?


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Can someone please help me with this??

The image button is broken and it doesn't work to just insert IMG tags on the link. What is going on??
 
Looks like a Leucosticta to me. Daemon's have the 2 defined black spots on their sides, Leucostictas the faded bars.. Looks good, I just got one about a month ago myself. I have no clue on the sexing of these though..
 
peathenster, I read that thread you linked to and I just wonder if you may be right. Hopefully Darth Pike will make it here. Because mine's an S. leucosticta (according to all the sources anyway <g>) and it does indeed look different than jeffries picture. Very interesting stuff as I never knew there was more than 1 species. Here's mine for reference, the dorsal fin definitely is different than the OP and has red on it.
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TwistedPenguin;3408237; said:
peathenster, I read that thread you linked to and I just wonder if you may be right. Hopefully Darth Pike will make it here. Because mine's an S. leucosticta (according to all the sources anyway <g>) and it does indeed look different than jeffries picture. Very interesting stuff as I never knew there was more than 1 species. Here's mine for reference, the dorsal fin definitely is different than the OP and has red on it.
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Yep - mine are leucosticta too. I didn't know about mapiritensis either until Darth Pike pointed it out. :)
 
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