S. petricola and/or lucipinnis: please take a look

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S. petricola and/or lucipinnis: please take a look

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Short video:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/petricola/ ... 6325099505

Could be a mix as they were bought in two separate groups (as "petricola")

From reading other posts here I guess it is most likely they are lucipinnis.

Is there any way to sex them from the video?

Thanks for reading/looking.
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The video doesn't play & goes black after an instant so i can't say for sure but it looks very much like you have a group of lucipinnis - there appears to way of sexing them from the video - a clear side-on shot of the genital papillae is needed
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Sorry you had problems with the video Richard. It seems ok on Safari and Firefox, what were you using?
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Work laptop with restricted access to some things
Lou: Every young man's fantasy is to have a three-way.
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Re: S. petricola and/or lucipinnis: please take a look

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Plays fine on my iPhone , these are indeed lucipinnis.

Petricola are pretty scarce compared to lucipinnis. Lucipinnis cost £5-£20 each depending on size etc Petrica cost £15-£70 per fish depending on size & tb or wc
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Thank you. I'll have a go at breeding them soon.
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