Apistogramma sp 'White seam' ???????

[ste12000]

Hi all, this fish is a sole contaminant of a recent batch of Dicrossus i ordered from Botoga, Columbia.. Ive enclosed a few pics of the young fish(aprox 20mm) and done a bit of my own research, Apistogramma sp 'white seam' seems to be the closest match i can find and the location seems to fit..

Unfortunatly there was only the single fish in the batch of 50 ordered Dicrossus, ive just ordered a second box and upped it to 100 dicrossus in the hope its still the same collection sat in the exporters and i can get a couple more!! Fingers crossed..

 

[Lolojil]

I agree with you :wink:.

This fish is A. sp "White Seam", a really nice little specie.

I hope that you will have with other dicrossus.

 

[Mike Wise]

Yes, I agree, too - A. sp. Weißsaum/White-seam.

 

[Microman]

Hi Steve,
I spotted a reverse trio of these recently in a shipment of wild hongsloi, Ray took them home.
Ive had these before, great little fish. Its always worth looking very closely in wild Colombian shipments for this little beauty.
Mark...

 

[P.W.]

I found one as well! I was strolling through the LFS a couple of days ago, when I spotted a strange little fish among the D. filamentosus in a slightly over crowded tank. Everytime I see a tank of wild caught dicrossus in a shop, I always remember this thread! When I looked closer at the tiny fish, I was convinced that it had to be the sp. White seam! I bought it of course. I think it is almost identical to the fish on the photos above. I have put him in a heavily planted tank with a few Borellii frys as company. Unfortunately it´s not that easy to get a good photo of him (I think its a male, 20mm) in this tank. But I will try to do my best.

So..now´s the question, how to find a couple more of these guys?? I definately would like to invest in this species. These "miniature species" have been fascinating me for a long time, but I have never got the oppurtunity to find any of these species. (wapisana, sp chao and sp whiteseam).

 

[Mike Wise]

A. sp. Weißsaum seems to be appearing more frequently as contaminants/by-catches with D. filamentosus from Colombia. A. wapisana is a rare import, maybe appearing once every 10 years, in North America at least. A. sp. Chao was only collected a couple of times and then not commercially, but by hobbyists. There is a good chance that it will become extinct once the Belo Monte Dam floods its only known biotope (islands in the Rio Xingu).

 

[P.W.]

Here´s a poor picture of the little fellow.
Normally he have a much more greyish colour, than shown on this photo. I think he was a bit excited about the live artemia I used to get him closer to the front glass

http://i730.photobucket.com/albums/ww310/pelledesu/whiteseam/whiteseam.jpg