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Hello! I´m from Spain and I hope you understand

I have bought three puffer with the name of carinotetraodon lorteti, but I think they really are irrubesco.
I can you confirm?

The first two pictures look like lorteti to me but the last two pictures I'm not sure. These two species completely confuse me. Sorry I'm not much help.

All photographs are the same fishes.
The last two pictures are from breeding colors

They are beautiful.

I've never been able to remember how to tell the two species apart, but someone will be by soon that is able to (Corvus, MartinHi, etc).

They are Irrubesco, they look just like my two!

mysifier is right

hi,

Lua_ wrote:All photographs are the same fishes.
The last two pictures are from breeding colors

breeding colors? i have never heard that this species has been breeded in captivity.
they just show males in their normal color.
i am also not sure about the two females. the color looks weird to me!but the males are irrubescu for sure.
martin

Yes, Martin Hi, look: viewtopic.php?f=40&t=17781

hi,
wow! first time that i hear about that!
but again: i can only see the tipical male-colours.
martin

This is the normal coloration of males:




and this is the color breeding of the same male:

When I had a male one of those puffers he always looked like the bottom photo, black with a white belly, mine never had the red stripe down his belly though?!

Slugsy's colours were like that alot when Audrey was still in the tank, I took her out because she wasnt impressed by his advances lol! she was a bit young and still growing, she will be going back in in a few days, now the plants have grown a bit and there are more broken lines of sight. Fingers crossed I'm hoping for the same result!

good luck!!

Thanks good luck raising your babies, I hope all goes well

They are nice looking puffers.