Apistogramma agassizii 'Tefe' (warning: picture intensive)

[illumnae]

month old fry. the colours are starting to show!

[EvolutionZ]

wow! so cute looking!

[doppelbanddwarf]

Looking nice. How come your substrate looks sandy now? You added sand?

[illumnae]

nls put through a pepper grinder = sandy like substance

[doppelbanddwarf]

Eh that seems to be A LOT of nls.

[illumnae]

there are quite a number of fry haha

[illumnae]

i was scouting around deciding whether to fly to japan, taiwan or hongkong to stock up my upcoming (but postponed) apisto rack and i came across this:

http://www.rva.jp/apisto/22381-20051223.htm

seems like my agassizii isn't a 'tefe' but a Ap. agassizii 'Kameta' instead?

[EvolutionZ]

don't really looks like that beauty in the link though...

[illumnae]

the orange dorsal streak, yellow head streak, face markings and body colouration look very similar to me. the electric blue tail colouration is somewhat similar too. i do agree with you that the golden dorsal sheen and exact tail patterns differ slightly though.

i'm just very puzzled as to what exactly is the locality of my agassizii and it seems to most resemble the "Kameta".

on a side note, except for the golden dorsal sheen, i do unabashedly think that mine's more of a beauty than the one in the link better blue face markings, stronger yellow head, more blue body sheen, longer dorsal and longer tail with nicer markings i just wish mine had the golden dorsal sheen too!

[Savant]

Just stumbled upon your thread... very nice!!! well done

[EvolutionZ]

haha.. maybe the F1 fries will have the golden sheen.. good luck =)

[doppelbanddwarf]

Haha Yi Xiang you can't have everything in one Apistogramma.

[illumnae]

one can always dream

am i the only one who thinks mine looks more like the "Kameta" than a "Tefe"?

[doppelbanddwarf]

Imho,I think it looks like neither. The tail markings of your agassizii are quite different from both. Meanwhile I have totally no idea which locality or variant yours belong to.

[illumnae]

guess it's just me then i was looking at the charactaristics besides the tail marking which seem almost identical to me, and the tail colouration (which looks uncommon for agassiziis) also looks similar. so other than the markings on the tail, i thought they look similar.

oh well, maybe one of the parents of my fish got lost and swam to the wrong river locality to breed with a "local" and produce the oddly marked fish i got

[theodore]

Why not take a shot of the daddy flaring? The colors/patterns will be a lot clearer that way.

For example, my male's purplish markings (on the caudal and back of dorsal) only become obvious when he flares. Other times, it looks dull brown.

[illumnae]

They bred again...while the previous batch of fry are still swimming around in that tank i'm gonna have to figure out a way to get the fry out before protective mummy kills them all! they're too big for airline tubing siphon...anyone have ideas?

[trident]

yixiang,
net them out or use a bigger tube. but net is safer now that they are bigger.
looks like busy times ahead.

[illumnae]

richard, already busy at work net is hard because it's a scaped tank with plants, wood and rocks. bigger tube is also hard for the same reasons haha...i'll try to net them out bit by bit later tonight. i'll probably bring this tank to the office once my next spawn hatches/gets eaten. clearing my stuff in preparation for moving house...gonna take a temporary break from apistos at home till my rack is set up

[Don90]

Just curious, but can you identify the gender of the fries at the tender age of 1 month old?