imo, another species would be better to start out with.
as pointed out in the first reply they're a moderately difficult species to keep alive.
for example,
I went to a well known brick and mortar/ online retile places last month
they had advertised this species as being available so I went to...
Well a few things...
I don't think I was being clear with the post
what I intended to say is that the (red) bars along the lateral line do not meet.
as in the examples above and that could be used to help identify locality.
But in retrospect, that may be too extreme and ridged.
I've seen...