Lee did you get this fish from the same dealer you got the sulpherhead? cause the broken horizontal stripe is almost the same.

my guess would be protomelas annectens female

no vince it came from a differnet LFS but that was part of the reason we picked her up...we were kinda hoping they would be a pair

Lee, check this link for pics of protomelas variants. there are a couple of pics that look similar to yours
http://www.akvariumas.lt/galerija/protomelas/index.shtml

will be interesting as it grows..nice save lee..

TY

this appears to be a young female Taenilotus (red empress), little thin from not having eaten in a couple weeks. Check the fry for size, strip and let her eat. At this small, the Annectens has a more elongated (pointed) mouth where as the Taenilotus has an arrow head. if you placed her in with the females you had, you would see the fit, other than the body fade from holding fry and being a lesser quality farmed specimen.

Looks alot like my female P. virgatus

Wayne we thought about that but she has a more elongated body and the fins do not match the female red empress