Ohh thank you for the help...our local fish store was bringing some of these i was thinking of keeping and breeding them...bt i was a little on the edge about breeding them i read in someplaces that they are hybrid and breeding them will not be good...bt i didn't know why...thank you for explaining it to meIt looks like A. sp. Tefe (a different species than A. agassizii). They are distinguished from the latter by the (usually) zigzag stripes below and sometimes also above the lateral band. Dispite it is known since the late 1990s by the work of Hoffmann & Hoffmann that cross-breeding of A. agassizii and A. sp. Tefe results in the usual symptoms of hybridization (low hatching rates, deformed scales, infertility), the trade as well as many hobbyists still don't recognize them as different species.
I Have A Another Question Brother Will Breeding Apistogramma Macmasteri Super Reds cause any harm to the fry...??It looks like A. sp. Tefe (a different species than A. agassizii). They are distinguished from the latter by the (usually) zigzag stripes below and sometimes also above the lateral band. Dispite it is known since the late 1990s by the work of Hoffmann & Hoffmann that cross-breeding of A. agassizii and A. sp. Tefe results in the usual symptoms of hybridization (low hatching rates, deformed scales, infertility), the trade as well as many hobbyists still don't recognize them as different species.
A. sp. Tefe themselves are not hybrids, they are a regular species. Only when you cross-breed them with A. agassizii (or some other separate species) the offspring will be hybrids. However, since the above fish is wrongly offered as A. agassizii, I would only buy it if it's wild caught. If it's tank bred, it can't be excluded that it's itself a hybrid A. sp.Tefe x A. agassizii.Ohh thank you for the help...our local fish store was bringing some of these i was thinking of keeping and breeding them...bt i was a little on the edge about breeding them i read in someplaces that they are hybrid and breeding them will not be good...bt i didn't know why...thank you for explaining it to me
A. macmasteri "Super red" is a line bred form of A. macmasteri. If the specimens you own/buy look healthy and don't show any deformations of body, fins or scales, there should be no problem with their offspring.I Have A Another Question Brother Will Breeding Apistogramma Macmasteri Super Reds cause any harm to the fry...??