Agassizi Alenquer "red tail"

[Ian Logan]

I Have seen the above at my LFS and was unclear which colour form these are.

I am recently returned to the hobby so playing catch up so let me say thank you for the quality of information and opinion on this forum.

I was not expecting "Alenquer" to be red tail, believing them to be a blue/ yellow form with white tail markings so I've been researching the forum threads to see if this is an "aquarium strain" and to check my if understanding are adrift.

I think I may have misunderstood the (always excellent) thread posting from Mike Wise http://www.apistogramma.com/forum/threads/apistogramma-cf-agassizii-alenquer.9883/#post-54504 and on re-reading it seems the Alenquer form is differentiated by pattern and fin extensions rather than e.g. red vs white in the tail per se; although this post is now 6 years old and who knows what commercial development may have taken place since so if anyone can me fully understand this I'd be grateful and sleep easier.

On a second but related point should we be trying to keep wild type colour forms as breeding groups particularly in super species groups and areas under habitat threat?

Cheers

Ian

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,
I've seen this commercial strain of A. agassizii being sold as "Alenquer" in the UK, presumably because of the tail markings on the male.

I think the "Alenquer" tag is used for tank bred Discus and Apistogramma to give them a bit more catchet and sell them for a higher price.

I've had fry from this pair and all the males have had had the same blue body colour and red variegated tail, suggesting that it is a line bred form.

Apologies for the quality of the video.

cheers Darrel