Help ID this breeding pair!

[japisto1]

Hey guys,

So I picked up a bag of three Apistos from a fish auction a couple months ago. They were sold as "unsexed Apistogramma borellii".

I came home this weekend, and I discovered that a mail and female from the trio have paired up, and I believe that they have spawned underneath some driftwood in my tank.

Anyways, I've been looking up pictures of A. borellii but my apistos don't look anything like the ones on the internet! Could you help me figure out whether I actually have borellii or not? Thanks. The first three pictures are of the male, and the last two pictures are of the female as she guards the entrance to her burrow beneath the driftwood.

 

[gerald]

hmmm ... maybe black-throat (schwarzkehl)?

 

[mixmixi]

I agree with Gerald

 

[Frank Hättich]

to me it looks like A. alacrina or something similar

 

[Mike Wise]

I need more information. Size? Wild or domestic bred?

Right now all I can say is that they are a regani-lineage species. That whittles it down to one of about 200 species. Better (in focus) photos would greatly help.

 

[japisto1]

Thanks guys for the input!

Mike - sorry for the bad photos, they were taken with my phone. I have no idea if they are wild or domestic bred since I picked them up from an auction and the bag didn't indicate. The female is only about 1.5 inches and the male is about 2".