Satanoperca ID?

[FluffySackson]

I got this fish as Satanoperca Mapiritensis....but I'm beginning to think it's a leucosticta.....here's some amazing (horrible) pictures, taken with my professional and high quality (amateur and poor quality) photography skills. Excuse the fins, had fin rot a while back and was successfully treated. Doing daily water changes to promote healing.

 

[darth pike]

It looks like it has a line of reflective scales at the base of the dorsal fin? If it does, it's leucosticta. Coloring is also off for a Map, but that could be the lighting.

 

[FluffySackson]

Yup...leuco it is....all this time I thought I had one of my dream fish...my dreams have been crushed....*sniff*


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[FluffySackson]

Bump


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[FluffySackson]

Bump....anyone?

 

[Oceanica]

I have both S leucosticta and S mapiritensis. They are difficult to tell apart, but generally maps have a blueish tinge to them and little to no red on the fins. Leucos have a more amber-ish hue and more red, and also generally bigger speckles relative to the maps. The row of reflective scales along the dorsal does not provide a definite ID as some maps also have it.

 

[FluffySackson]

I have both S leucosticta and S mapiritensis. They are difficult to tell apart, but generally maps have a blueish tinge to them and little to no red on the fins. Leucos have a more amber-ish hue and more red, and also generally bigger speckles relative to the maps. The row of reflective scales along the dorsal does not provide a definite ID as some maps also have it.

Thanks but I found out a while ago that this fish is actually a mapiritensis. It was just my crappy lighting washing out the colors and making his green look white. Leucos seem to be of mint greenish-white color as opposed to the map's emerald green/ turquoise green on the cheeks