Confirmation of ID, ?? Breitbinden

[a.d.wood]

Hi folks,

Fortunate to get a detour past Pier Aquatics yesterday (Wigan, UK), they had a tank with some Apistogramma iniridae (now residing in the fish house ), anyway following discussions with Neil, turns out it was a mixed bag from Colombia. What caught my eye in the tank in the first place was a male exhibiting a lyretail.

Long and the short of it was I took the 8 fish left, which was 6 iniridae and a pair (feeling very lucky on this!!) of what I am now thinking are Apistogramma sp Breitbinden. Anyway care to confirm (or deny!!) this:

Female

Male

Apologies for the quality of the images, they need time to settle in (and me to be in less of a hurry).

Andrew

 

[a.d.wood]

Few more of the male (at least with diagnostic bars and stripes this time).

I put fresh peat into the water storage drum last week, so now have very tannin rich water, fish love it but photography in the breeding tanks is awful.

Male

Andrew

 

[Mike Wise]

Does the male have a bi-coloured caudal fin? If so, it is A. sp. Breitbinden/Broad-banded.

 

[blueblue]

Yes, they are obviously Apistogramma sp Breitbinden, the similar type as the ones we guys find from the mixed apistos in Hong Kong

 

[Microman]

Thats a cracking pick up Andrew... Along with the iniridae i bet your glad you popped into Neals now.
Ah the joys of working on the road....
Mark.

 

[cacatuoides]

NIce young male you have!! got great potential....reminds me of my previous pair....

 

[a.d.wood]

Hi folks,

Thanks Mike, the male does have a bi-coloured tail (yellow on bottom), So A. sp Breitbinden it is then

Thanks to everyone else for their comments, you hear tales of people visiting the LFS and coming away with something special. Very nice that it was my turn :biggrin:

Andrew