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I need your help in Identification

Michaela Else

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I believe these two are two females but I'm not sure of which species.
My partner and I bought them from someone clearing out their tank and was just sold to use as 'Apistogramma' with no identification other than that.

We bought a pair of Super Red Agassizi from a local aquatic shop and these two are attempting to breed but both attack these two. I've scoured the internet looking at many pictures and looking up general information and I've come up with two possibilities.

Either they are Agassizi because of the spot in the middle and show the same colour changes as our own Super Red female.

BUT.
They lack the distinct spade shaped tail fin of our male and female that makes me wonder if they're Macmasteri.

I had to take pictures with my mobile phone so please excuse the lack of quality but I've taken hundreds of pictures and selected the best quality. If you need more pictures to give a 100% distinction I'll gladly post more pictures.

I want to make sure what they are as I'm looking to get some breeding tanks set you and remove them from the community tank and see if our Agassizi will breed sucessfully.

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Ruki

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Photo is too blurry for proper identification but for me they look like something related with Apistogramma iniridae.
 

Michaela Else

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Photo is too blurry for proper identification but for me they look like something related with Apistogramma iniridae.
Thanks for your input, I've looked them up and they indeed could be what we have, I've uploaded some videos of them and a comparrison video between our agassizi pair if it helps.

I noticed something interesting today, our more yellow unidentified female was displaying along with our male, the male displaying much like he does with our agassizi female when she's in ths mood to brood but the female wasn't 'dancing' along with him and kept retreating. Unfortunately it ended too quickly for me to get my camcorder going on my phone to capture the moment.
 

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