A. Agassizi Fire Red

[mateomedina]

Any one who owns this apisto have any pics of them?? They look like extremely colorful fish!!

 

[CopabX]

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,
Not mine, but these were in a recent thread on UKAPS
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/andyh_2011/5868081760/>

cheers Darrel

 

[Linus_Cello]

This link to below pic was posted on an earlier thread:

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c5/Micromania/000_1209.jpg

 

[mateomedina]

Wow those are ome gorgeous fish!! As neon colorful as saltwater fish =D

 

[Jonathan Aquari]

I personally like the A. Agassizi double red and the more natural versions. Just my personal view, many people like this collure variation.

 

[animalmgc]

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't there a "Wild Form" of Aggie fire reds

 

[Jonathan Aquari]

I did not say that, i said I prefer the actual wild colors.

 

[animalmgc]

was asking as a general ? not saying u said

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't there a "Wild Form" of Aggie fire reds

There are forms with red backs, but I assume that the "Fire Reds" are a leucistic/xanthistic mutation which had been fixed by breeding. They look extremely strange looking in the flesh, and you can't imagine them lasting in the wild.

cheers Darrel

 

[Mike Wise]

There is no "Wild Form" of Fire-red A. agassizii. It is a domestic form developed from several different populations of wild and domestic populations/forms/species of the A. agassizii superspecies. One of them was probably A. cf. agassizii Santarem Rotrücken/Red-back. It is a form that has little body color, other than a red band below the dorsal fin. This population was discovered about a year before the fire red was developed. It was probably crossed with one of the 'super-red' domestic strains to develop the first Fire-red Agassizii strains. These have been improved over the years.