Mystery Aequidens sp. continued!

[Freakgecko91]

So I was finally able to get some updated pics of a mystery fish I purchased a few weeks ago from my LFS. It came in as a hitchhiker in a shipment of wild mikrogeophagus ramirezi from the Orinoco river in Colombia. Well it's been some time and the little guy (or gal) is growing like a weed and really coloring up. HUKIT, cbourg, 5x5, Garfy, Aski, asking you guys specifically, but obviously anyone is able to chime in. Thanks everyone! *ignore that last pic, won't let me delete*

 

[Tandanus]

Aeqidens metae? perhaps

 

[Cecil2010]

Andinoacara rivulatus aka green terror

 

[HUKIT]

Does it look like this?

 

[Freakgecko91]

Does it look like this?

http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=...uJMXiJWmLANTKkpPr34CyG1g&ust=1370002171972802

Not quite, more yellow in the body color and no gold flaking

 

[Freakgecko91]

Andinoacara rivulatus aka green terror

Definitely note rivulatus, 100% sure of that

Though there are a few andinoacara species in the orinoco

 

[HUKIT]

Aeqidens metae? perhaps

I agree.

 

[cbourg746]

I'm leaning toward metae but possibly diadema.

 

[Freakgecko91]

I'm 95% sure it's a metae, especially with that yellow starting to show in spots.


On a separate but sort of related note, my krobia is starting to get the orange , unfortunately there's only one left from problems in shipping and odd conspecific aggression

 

[HUKIT]

I'm 95% sure it's a metae, especially with that yellow starting to show in spots.

I was thinking about andinoacara latifrons initially but they have a good deal of gold spangling.

 

[Freakgecko91]

I was thinking about andinoacara latifrons initially but they have a good deal of gold spangling.

Yeah, it's close, but that gold Spanglish seems to be consistent throughout A. latifrons, I think I'd rather it be a metae anyway lol, much cooler fish in my opinion, either way, I don't think it was a bad grab for $10