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Both are found in the same area. sp Tiquie I've only ever seen as an elizabethea contaminant, which makes them fairly uncommon in the hobby. Its a neat fish. I'd be headed back to the LFS and looking for more fish in the elizabethea tank with that clearly detached caudal spot.
Nice looking male elizabethea! Wonderful fish. The other fish gives me a bit of pause. The picture isn't the greatest, and there seems to be a distinct caudal spot which concerns me. If you could, more/better pictures, would help determine if it is elizabethea, or one of the other species we...
I would consider bloodworms more of a once a week treat, and not a conditioning food to be used often. In some cases, too many bloodworms = dead apistogramma.
Packaging seems ok to me. Little water, lots of o2, fish breathe oxygen. Sometimes shipping mortality happens. Good clean water, and high quality foods for the female, and all should be well.
Looks male to me. Picture isn't the greatest, but the dorsal fin looks to have a bit of extension on the posterior side, and It seems to have some dorsal extensions on the anterior of it.
You really don't want to try and store them live....once the yolk sack they carry is consumed, they aren't really a magic food anymore. Hatch fewer every day.
Whoa....just a little ways from agassizii.
First two pics look to be fish from the regani lineage. A. paulmuelleri?
Last two pics I haven't the foggiest...
Nice male! I won't attempt... between the mood of the fish and the quality of the pictures, arguments for agassizii, cf. agassizii "net/netz", and sp Tefe could probably all be made...