What kind of festivum is this?

[Christophercanary]

It is about 5-6" long has nice blue coloration on the top of its body that can't be seen in the picture as well as it looks in person. Ive had it about a year now and i bought it with a smaller less colorful festivum. The LFS said they came to the store together.

 

[Christophercanary]

Pic

 

[Christophercanary]

Pic

 

[Christophercanary]

The smaller one with the bigger one behind, the smaller one is staring to get some specks of blue too. The smaller one is about 3-4"

 

[ehh]

Aren't festivums just festivums. Like how nics are nics, ya know.

 

[Christophercanary]

I thought there were several different species of them, another member on here had one that looked different from mine, looks like it had spots and not a stripe like mine

 

[ehh]

Oh. Well it looks like a festivus to me.

 

[Christophercanary]

I think ive found it i think its mesonauta merificus

 

[Christophercanary]

If you go to http://www.fishbase.se/identification/SpeciesList.php?genus=Mesonauta it has pictures of six different species of festivum

 

[8DiagramPoleFighter]

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http://www.cichlidae.com/genus.php?id=95