A. macmasteri redneck

[II Knucklez II]

I have been looking for this fish for a while now, they are one of my favorite Apisto's. Only could find them through Wetspot but they are $30 each plus shipping which if you next day it is around $70 more or less, so that has slowed me down until I found a C.A.F.E. member from the Ohio fish club had some and was willing to sell some for a reasonable price. The shipping was still very expensive but I really wanted them bad!

so heres an unboxing video to share with you guys and would like to know if anyone else has them?

I planned on breeding them and adding some to my 180g Discus tank.

 

[Mike Wise]

Definitely different from what was originally sold as 'Redneck' (Rotrücken in German) - which is a wild population. Here is a photo of a wild specimen. We called it a 'Red-shoulder Mac' back in the Dark Ages. He won 3rd place at the 1984 ACA convention.

 

[chappy6107]

very good looking apistos.

 

[Cookie_apisto]

Definitely different from what was originally sold as 'Redneck' (Rotrücken in German) - which is a wild population. Here is a photo of a wild specimen. We called it a 'Red-shoulder Mac' back in the Dark Ages. He won 3rd place at the 1984 ACA convention.
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He look nice and huge! Did yoy breed them? So if mine are from wild I should lower the ph and hardness more faster? Right now I am slowly bringing down the ph and hardness by water change every three days. The ph is 7.4 and kh is 4 right now. temp is 78F

 

[Mike Wise]

Yes, bred several generations from the wild and their offspring. Bred just like other macs.

 

[Tom C]

Definitely different from what was originally sold as 'Redneck' (Rotrücken in German) - which is a wild population.

The fishes I collected in the Rio Pauta drainage, Colombia, less than 2 months ago, seem to fit quite well the original "Red-Shoulder"-fishes, except for the red in the caudal...

A. sp. "D33":

A. sp. "D34":

Seems to have got Measles :

Collected in pH 5,4, on the 30th of January, 2017