Juvi Flagfin or Goldflake?

[Chelsey]

I recently acquired what I was told is a juvenile goldflake to pair with a slightly larger juvenile goldflake. Now, however, I'm wondering if it really is a goldflake or if I paid way too much for a juvi flagfin. The fish is about 1-1.5" in length and is healthy (the glass is dirty in the pics). She's gained some weight since the pic was taken but not a whole lot else has changed. So...juvi goldflake or juvi flagfin?

 

[minhvu]

Really looks like a hybrid between the two. If it is then u didn't overpaid.

 

[euod]

Juvi flagfin.

 

[NexDog]

Hard to tell under 2" but looks like a Goldflake. I think they develop the black caudal earlier than the Flagfin and also Flagfin will be a tad more yellow. Also the band down towards the eye is not as sold on the Flagfin.

It's definitely not a hybrid.

 

[SDguy]

Even super small flagfins that I've seen have been very bright yellow.

 

[Chelsey]

I was leaning toward goldflake...I'm glad to hear that some people agree with me. I was looking on several websites (fishbase, etc) and comparing the juvenile goldflakes to flagfins. It seems like the flagfins are a solid bright yellow, whereas the goldflakes have the beginning of the gold flakes developing like mine does, with the staggered bars (for lack of a better term). There's a picture on fishbase taken by Tanaka that shows a juvi goldflake without any of the black fins yet, so I'm hopeful

 

[NexDog]

Aye, you're pretty safe. Might get one meself one day.