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  1. Frank Hättich

    D24 How to improve Color?

    Yes, my wild Apistos did get a good diet but the red coloration nevertheless did fade. Of course, fish from a shop are usually kept in "less than perfect" conditions and therefore don't show all their colors unless the conditions improve.
  2. Frank Hättich

    D24 How to improve Color?

    Unfortunately not in my Apistos.
  3. Frank Hättich

    D24 How to improve Color?

    I don't know because I don't know the reason for the fading in Apistos.
  4. Frank Hättich

    D24 How to improve Color?

    My experience with wild caught Apistos is that over time particularly the red coloration fades more and more. I didn't found a way to stop or even reverse this.
  5. Frank Hättich

    Help on identifying Apistogrammas

    Reducing the amount of red in the picture a bit, makes it obvious that the left fish is in fact a macmasteri "Gold":
  6. Frank Hättich

    Is this a male A. sp. "Ipiranga"?

    Then I'm quite sure that it's a female.
  7. Frank Hättich

    Is this a male A. sp. "Ipiranga"?

    What size is it?
  8. Frank Hättich

    Trying to identify this Dwarf Cichlid

    It's an Apisto and for sure not A. cacatuoides. It might be an eunotus-subcomplex species.
  9. Frank Hättich

    Species and sex id ?

    I have no doubts about this.
  10. Frank Hättich

    Apistogramma lineata info?

    Color and it's intensity depends on many things like food, ligthing, color of substrate, water conditions, dominance etc. Different populations of a species can of course also show different colorations and even within a single population there can be differently colored types (this is called...
  11. Frank Hättich

    Struggling with finding female trifasciata

    You are right, it's one of the agassizii-like species.
  12. Frank Hättich

    Id species (sold as Apistogramma sp. "Ipiranga")

    I never called your Ladislao the "blue form". I just spoke of your "blue male" because you did so in posts #64 and #66 of the corresponding thread. I just tried to make sure that we talk about the same fish, nothing more. As I have said in that thread too, all Ladislao-forms can show a blue...
  13. Frank Hättich

    Species and sex id ?

    A deeper analysis of the Ladislao-like species (including DNA) will probably happen only when one of them is scientifically described. Since only very few scientists are working on the genus and there are hundreds of species awaiting their scientific description, I do not expect this to happen...
  14. Frank Hättich

    Species and sex id ?

    I think some clarifications might be helpful: I never was unsure whether your wolli were actually Ladislao or vice versa. In regard to the wolli I was unsure whether they might been one of the other wolli-like species (i.e. A. payaminonis and A. sp. D3) and in regard to your Ladislao I was...
  15. Frank Hättich

    Species and sex id ?

    She merely shows a single lateral spot. The spot in front of the caudal fin is the caudal spot and the one at the base of the pectoral fin is the pectoral spot/blotch. Mike already said that she looks like his wolli females and I don't see anything that speaks against wolli either.
  16. Frank Hättich

    Species and sex id ?

    The two rows of abdominal spots which reach to the anterior part of the belly is something seen more regularly on A. wolli. Can you please show a picture of your female showing 3 lateral spots? Like Tom's females wolli females in general merely show a single lateral spot.
  17. Frank Hättich

    Species and sex id ?

    What is based on what photos on Tom's site? I was just commenting on what Mike said about your male.
  18. Frank Hättich

    Species and sex id ?

    I agree with Mike that the body shape of the male looks normal on the latest pictures. However, unlike Mike, I'm sure that it's not A. wolli (but rather one of the Ladislao forms). E.g. in A. wolli the red seams in the caudal fin are more narrow and are separated from the edges of the fin by a...
  19. Frank Hättich

    Species and sex id ?

    He doesn't look underfed or ill to me. It just seems that he has a slender body and in relation to it a large head. The different forms look a bit different in regard to coloration and/or caudal pattern and are from different catch locations. This suggests that they are different species, but...
  20. Frank Hättich

    Species and sex id ?

    According to the best of my knowledge, the only of the Ladislao-related species in which males show a caudal pattern but no red markings on the head is A. sp. Ladislao 2. However, this "knowledge" is merely based on a view pictures of each of the species/forms. Moreover, your fish might just be...
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