Hi all, I've gotten 3 Apistogramma Gephyra last week from a renowned Dutch shop (Utaka) who are 90% of the time correct with hard to ID species and I think they got them from Glaser. Anyway, I get them and let them settle in to be better able to determine the sex (and species). These were caught in Santa Isabel (middle Negro).
I think I got in luck and got one male and 2 females. One of the females has made her territorium in a dark corner of the tank so she is very hard to photograph. When the fishes meet they only flare a bit to eachother, no real aggression. All of them are still quite small, body length about 3cm, with caudal fin about 4cm. Anyway, can you guys conform the species and sexing? Sorry for the bad quality photos I'll try to make more tomorrow of better quality.
Male, the photos make him seem more silvery than he actually is, when I look at him he has more clear yellow with blue fluorescent mainly in his lower body, but it could also be that the tannins in the water are deceiving my eyes. I think he is a male because he has way more colour in his caudal fin and more blue fluorescence in his body + a more defined red in his dorsal fins compared to the 2 others.
On this photo you see the colours as I see them.
Here you can clearly see the white ring in the tail
Here an example where everything looks less yellow and you can see some of the fluorescence.
Here again more to the yellow side.
Bit far away, but flaring, check the red line in the dorsal fins):
Females: they only show yellow in the body with only a little bit of the fluorescence, compared to the male. Sometimes the black stripe changes to a single black spot.
2 presumably females flaring to eachother:
I know these photos don't make it easy. Once again: I'll try to make better photos tomorrow.
I think I got in luck and got one male and 2 females. One of the females has made her territorium in a dark corner of the tank so she is very hard to photograph. When the fishes meet they only flare a bit to eachother, no real aggression. All of them are still quite small, body length about 3cm, with caudal fin about 4cm. Anyway, can you guys conform the species and sexing? Sorry for the bad quality photos I'll try to make more tomorrow of better quality.
Male, the photos make him seem more silvery than he actually is, when I look at him he has more clear yellow with blue fluorescent mainly in his lower body, but it could also be that the tannins in the water are deceiving my eyes. I think he is a male because he has way more colour in his caudal fin and more blue fluorescence in his body + a more defined red in his dorsal fins compared to the 2 others.
On this photo you see the colours as I see them.
Here you can clearly see the white ring in the tail
Here an example where everything looks less yellow and you can see some of the fluorescence.
Here again more to the yellow side.
Bit far away, but flaring, check the red line in the dorsal fins):
Females: they only show yellow in the body with only a little bit of the fluorescence, compared to the male. Sometimes the black stripe changes to a single black spot.
2 presumably females flaring to eachother:
I know these photos don't make it easy. Once again: I'll try to make better photos tomorrow.
