Difference in color

[Champ_17]

I have some fry of apistogrmma tefe but when they grown up they look very difference in color although they have same parent.
I need to know why they look very difference?

almost of them have red margin on their head like this.

But for the odd one is look very yellow. How difference.

 

[Mike Wise]

Moved to Apistogramma section.

Species of the agassizii-complex (especially A. agassizi) all tend to be polychromatic. Wildcaught fish and the first 2 or 3 generations from them will vary in color. It's nothing to be concerned about. Only consistent selective inbreeding will 'set' certain characteristics, like color.

 

[Champ_17]

Moved to Apistogramma section.

Species of the agassizii-complex (especially A. agassizi) all tend to be polychromatic. Wildcaught fish and the first 2 or 3 generations from them will vary in color. It's nothing to be concerned about. Only consistent selective inbreeding will 'set' certain characteristics, like color.

Thank Mike. At here I'm someone tell me A.tefe should be violet-white tail color but after i breed the violet-white tail strain the result still has yellow-white tail offspring mixed with violet-white tail.

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

At here I'm someone tell me A.tefe should be violet-white tail color but after i breed the violet-white tail strain the result still has yellow-white tail offspring mixed with violet-white tail.

They are really nice fish, but with the usual proviso that I never get these right, but I think Mike may be saying that these are A. agassizii ss, rather than the similar A. sp. "Tefe".

The reason I think this is that your fish don't have obvious wavy stripes above & below the lateral band (on the male) that A. sp. "Tefe" has., and it looks more like the scale pattern/causal stripes on A. agassizii "Netz/Alenquer".

There is discussion of this in your thread from last year: <http://www.apistogramma.com/forum/i...sizi-tefe-redback-or-hybrid.13307/#post-73696>

cheers Darrel

 

[Mike Wise]

Darrel may be right. These might not be A. sp. Tefé. I really can't say, based on these photos. They might be a population of the A. cf. agassizii Netz/Net form. Still, what I said applies to both A. agassizii (sensu lato) & A. sp. Tefé.