In my honest opinion, I don't trust ordering fish that I cannot see how they interact with each other, their body shape and how aggressively they eat.
I contacted Mike Gies(?) and everything is sight unseen while placing an order.
I have a large discus tank 55 gallon with 1 royal red, 1 torquoise blue, 2 snakeskin, 1 blue diamond and 2 pigeon bloods and only made the mistake ONCE of ordering sight unseen, one of the pigeons. Never again. Because at that size it is hard to know if it is stunted, true shape and it had more peppering than I'd like.
I find it is worth the extra $20 for larger fish that you can see the eye to head ration and the body size compared to fins, even with high fin discus.
Just my 2c worth....
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