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Last Fall I got some H. cristatus from a fellow forum member. I haven't gotten to do much with them since then. I herniated a disk in my lower back and was basically out of commission for the past 2 months. These fish have been in a mostly bare 29 gallon quarantine tank all of this time. I'm finally able to hobble around on a partly numb leg and get some regular maintenance and food into my fish. Well, 2 have paired off and yesterday had a plaque of about 200 eggs on the base of a sponge filter. They seem to be doing fine; not overly aggressive toward the other fish, but protective of their spawn. They look like the H. cristatus in Lamboj's book - vertical bars on the flanks, small caudal spot, etc. I had a fish called cristatus in the 80s, but these fish didn't show the vertical bars nor the caudal spot. These were very mellow fish, just like the fish I now have. My main question is are the fish that I now have the 'real' H. cristatus? If so, what were the fish in the 80s that we called 'H. cristatus'?