ID help needed...

[RAF]

Can someone ID this, please:

... thanks.

 

[ed seeley]

I'm pretty sure that's a male Apistogramma 'Steel Blue'.

 

[RAF]

I'm pretty sure that's a male Apistogramma 'Steel Blue'.

That was my first option, but then I remembered that I mantained a couple of those a few years ago and they weren't excactly the same. Then I went to google images to find steel blue and the photos I saw weren't exacly like it... red markings in these photos I posted seem to be absent. Well, either way, thanks, that was also my best guess.

 

[jose_vogel]

Yes, it´s a male A. "steel blue".

 

[RAF]

Ok... thanks to both...

...by the way, is it confirmed to be an hybrid? And if that's so is there any idea to what species were crossed... probably resticulosa, I guess, and what more?

 

[chris1932]

Looks like Steelblue.

 

[Bilbo]

We have those here sold as Borellii.

What is a 'Steel Blue'? I have heard that is a hybrid and usually females are either impossible to find or the fish themselves are impossible to sex.

 

[gingerbeer]

Yeah Bilbo,

We have them in Australia sold as borelie, or Apistogramma sp "opal".

You can tell by the black blob just in front of the tail - that gives the game away.

I always tell one of the big stores in Brisbane what they are. (They also insist on selling Apistogramma pandurini as a different species to Apistogramma panduro)


Steve

 

[P.W.]

Ok... thanks to both...

...by the way, is it confirmed to be an hybrid? And if that's so is there any idea to what species were crossed... probably resticulosa, I guess, and what more?

No, it´s not "confirmed" to be a hybrid. There´s a lot of theorys around, and I´m not 100% sure about the hybrid theory. Time will tell I suppose

Read this thread meanwhile...

http://forum.apistogramma.com/showthread.php?t=3552&highlight=steelblue