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Your fish are either a form of A. cf. cacatuoides or A. juruensis. However, it seems that your male has a small orange spot near the upper edge of the caudal fin. If so, it's A. cf. cacatuoides. Do you have any information on the catch location?
Most noticeably on the head.
I never kept wild nijsseni-group fish,. so I don't know what happens to the red in their caudal fins.
If it was subadult when you got it, it's color will of course increase while maturing. The question is, will it become as colorful as it would have been in the wild?
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.
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.
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...
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...