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Re: No real news

Posted By: BB <nettech@bellatlantic.net>
Date: Thursday, 24 February 2000, at 10:04 p.m.

In Response To: Re: No real news (JD)

I was asking because I am almost positive that the fish you bought is the same as I have been maintaining. The fourm recently went round and round with nigrolineata vs. sidthimunki comparisons. It was fantastic! The thing that still has me bugged is the barbel count and the lack of vertical stripes in my specimens. I readily accept that vertical bars may yet develop but I do not think a pair of barbels is going to fall off ;) Mine have four pair. I went so far to to verify this again just to be sure. Neither the 'sids' nor the nigrolineata have four pair. Only thre