Want to know trends in Apistogramma species

[raymond]

Hi all apisto experts,

Have the following question to ask all of you
1) The 3 most common apisto available
2) The 3 most beautiful apisto
3) The 3 most rarest apisto

This is just the 3 question i have been asking myself as i have just started on apisto. So setting up this thread to get more information from all the experience apisto keeper here.

All input is appreciated. View is purely personal, please do not engage in argument because of different opinion.

Looking forward to hearing from you guys.

Cheers
Raymond
Newbie apisto keeper

[illumnae]

1. Apistogramma cacatuoides "Triple Red", Apistogramma cacatuoides "Orange Flash" and Apistogramma agassizii "Super Red"

2. Apistogramma bitaeniata (Orange colour morph), Apistogramma elizabethae "Super Red", Apistogramma agassizii "Tefe"

3. Any Wilhelm bred apistos

Disclaimer: The above are my personal opinion only and not an expression of fact

[joopsg]

1. Apistogramma Cacatuoides, Apistogramma Agassizi, Apistogramma Trifsciata.
2. Apistogramma Baeschi, Apistogramma Breitbinden, Apstogramma Diplotaenia.
3. Apistogramma paucisquamis, Apistogramma sp Miua, Any wild caught specimens.

[leeruisheng]

1. Apistogramma cacatuoides, Apistogramma agassizi, Apistogramma trifasciata
2. Apistogramma sp. blutkehl, Apistogramma elizabethae, Apistogramma eremnopyge
3. Apistogramma maulbruter, Apistogramma sp. blutkehl, Apistogramma guttata

Hey this thread is quite fun. Thanks.

[valice]

1. Apistogramma cacatuoides (strain bred variants), Apistogramma agassizi, Apistogramma viejita
2. Apistogramma sp. blutkehl, Apistogramma eremnopyge, Apistogramma uapesi
3. Apistogramma sp. blutkehl, Apistogramma guttata, Apistogramma cacatuoides (wild form)

[doppelbanddwarf]

My personal opinion
1. Apistogramma cacatuoides, Apistogramma agassizii, Apistogramma viejita
2. Apistogramma baenschi, Apistogramma guttata, Apistogramma diplotaenia
3. Apistogramma malbruter, Apistogramma sp. "Miua", Apistogramma sp. "Winkelfleck"

[yorky]

Interesting... just a quick comment..
Quite recently I saw a pretty colourless adult A. mendezi in a show tank.
It has been in neutral mood for the longest time until I introduced a pair of A. Baenschi.
Guess what, it kept flaring so intensely that all its fins (caudal and dorsal) became almost blood red.
It was one of the most beautiful apisto I've ever seen..
Guess you guys get my point by now.
Till to-date, in my personal opinion, all apistos are most beautiful when they flare intensely..

[trident]

1. Apistogramma cacatuoides, Apistogramma agassizii, Apistogramma viejita
The above are the most commonly available.
As for the most beautiful, (as yorky mentioned) when they are flaring! If you see a gibbicep or elizabethae when they are not flaring, you would not look twice! But when they are flaring.......that's how people like me got captivated

[barmby]

julian75's inka are the best

[Milk]

How come no one mention Apistogramma Diplotaenia??

Regards
Milk

[doppelbanddwarf]

joopsg and i did. I've yet to keep diplotaenias though.

[genes]

1) The 3 most common apisto available - cacatuoides, agassizii, macmasteri
2) The 3 most beautiful apisto - bitaeniata, juruensis, eremnopyge
3) The 3 most rarest apisto - Do not know how to answer this question. Rare as in Singapore? If so, then alot, impossible to name the rarest. Or rare as in wild caughts that are available in the market? Like Jurua, most specimens found today are commercially bred.

What about your views raymond? Any conclusion after reading all our views?

[raymond]

For me
1) common apisto : cacatouides, agassizii, macmasteri/viejita
2) most beautiful : bitaeniata, elizabethae super red, still looking for the last one (maybe a group of young fries with their mother foraging in the tank)
3) most rarest: any wilhelm grade,

Just my own point of view after looking at pictures after pictures. but i guess the view will change after actually seeing them with my own eyes swimming in tank.

Happy apistoing.

Hehe