Apisto ID

[JunglePhil]

hi im fairly new to keeping apistos and was wondering if anyone could help me out.

i recently picked up 2 stray "apistos" from a friend and was told they were a cacatuoides and an agassizi and that they were both male. problem is the agassizi was actually a nannacara anomala and the cac looks like a female to me.

im intending to breed the cacatuoides so can anyone tell me if im right in thinking its female or is it actually a male?

also what kind of colour form is this as all the info i have read about cacatuoides describes a greyish body with colour mainly in the fins, whereas the whole body has an orange tint to this one.

sorry about the bad quality pictures, im using my girlfriend's camera and dont have a clue how to focus the bloody thing.

 

[aquaticclarity]

Welcome to the forum!

I'll leave the "what man made color form is it" to some one else who works with tank strain fish more then I do but just to throw a guess out there I'd call it orange flash.

It is a female from what I can see in the pics. The leading edge of the ventral fins (paired lower front fins) has a string black color which is a female trait in most wild Apistos and normally holds true for tank strain fish as well although all of the selective breeding for color can sometimes throw things off.

 

[JunglePhil]

i thought that was the case. thanks for your help

 

[Gwendal]

I think you have a female.






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