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No, that was pretty much my thoughts too, Mike.
I didn't find additional videos of the male, but here is one of the female:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuFVlJF6MSs
Raise the temp!
Higher temperatures gives more males, ideally 79 F should provide 50/50 ratio, but that is not always the case...
I have to say that they are maybe a little to small to say for sure, so have a little patience, and som males might show up. Individuals with black ventrals as...
Hard to say from this photo, but could very well be Apistogramma sp. "Branco", A 226.
This is primarily based on the amount of red in the tail and the fact that the tail seems to be rounded more than spade shaped.
Not juruensis
Hi K-Pon,
Your fish seem to be the undescribed species Apistogramma sp. "Black Chin"/Schwarzkinn. It shares some similarities with A. juruensis that have not been exported for a while. The most prominent similarity is that the spot at the tail root (caudal spot) is separated...
Why should being an amateur prevent you from finding something new? It didn't stop you, did it?
It surprises me that you are so unwilling to accept that others found something that you didn't. After all it's a huge area, and no one could really blame you for not finding everything. How could...
Congratulations on your achievement! From what little is known about this species, it should be quite hard to reproduce, as I understand it. Only one time a shipment of this species has arrived in Denmark. Unfortunately every single one of the was lost:frown:
Very interesting about the...
An appendix
Just saw Miko's photos here:
http://www.pecesdevenezuela.com/Dicrossus_filamentosus.html
Apparently the two "amateur" ichthyologists were not the only ones to find top sword Dicrossus in nature...
I have this fish, which was imported to Denmark as A. sp. "Roter" from Peru.
The nearest I have been able to id it is A 76, a population of an A. eunotus like fish, but I have only seen one photo of this fish and am not totally convinced that this is it. So I would also really like some...