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Hi, I bought a pair of wild apistos as A. panduro some time back. I'm actually now wondering if they (or at least the male) are A. nijsseni. Looking at the pictures on Tom's page my male looks more like A. nijsseni. He's in blackwater so hard to make out his colours exactly but when I shone a torch on him he appears to have a lot of yellow colouration on his head (possibly due to blackwater effect but I think it's pigmentation), no obvious extension of the dark patch into the caudal fin, a thin blue band inside the orange one on the caudal, with yellow colouration inside this to the black mark at the caudal peduncle (think I've got that piece of anatomy correct). He also has a more dark base colouration thatn other A. panduro images I've seen and some faint vertical bands, with a darker spot on his sides. He also appears to have a blue margin at the rear of the dorsal and yellow at thr front. Again, I can't tell exactly what the colouration is as it's in blackwater. I have no collection information (although the shop I got them from have had A. nijsseni in). He just doesn't look much like any other A. panduro I've seen but he's also probably not fully mature. The female has quite white base colouration but he's always had a darker base colour (more greyish!).
Are there any obvious differences I should be looking for? I suppose it could be possible that I have a panduro female and nijsseni male.
The pictures aren't great. They are a few months old and are from when I had them in a tank that wasn't blackwater. I'll try to get some others. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Are there any obvious differences I should be looking for? I suppose it could be possible that I have a panduro female and nijsseni male.
The pictures aren't great. They are a few months old and are from when I had them in a tank that wasn't blackwater. I'll try to get some others. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks