Need an ID please, arrived with Ortegai

[hengeli]

Hi,

I have a pair of contaminant that came with Ortegai, I quite like them but am unsure of their ID. Would someone be able to tell me what they are? This is the male.

 

[hengeli]

Female

 

[Frank Hättich]

It looks like a resticulosa-complex species. The only resticulosa-complex species from Peru I know is A. cf. resticulosa from the Rio Madre de Dios. However, the latter look a bit different than your fish. When you say they came with ortegai, do you mean with wild caught ortegai from Peru or from some other source?

 

[hengeli]

I think it may have mixed along the way - either transhipper, supplier in Australia or at the LFS itself, I bought them from a shop that supposedly sold them to me as Ortegai, but when I took them home, I noticed a pair very different to the Ortegai( 3 males). They could have landed as wild who knows.

Big thank you Frank for the ID because I would not have been able to figure them out myself.

I have bred the Ortegai in a week since I got them, I have females from another source in South Australia you see.

Noticed the head (for lack of a better word) of the above fish as being more like a Dicrossus, hence I knew they were different.

Cheers,

 

[Frank Hättich]

I think it may have mixed along the way - either transhipper, supplier in Australia or at the LFS itself,

If they have been mixed in later (in Australia), they can be one of the A. cf. resticulosa forms (from Brazil) or A. sp. Steel-blue. In the latter case there should be a pattern of vertical stripes all over the male's caudal fin eventually.

 

[Frank Hättich]

I forgot one possibility: it can also be A. sp. Wangenflecken, another resticulosa-complex species from Brazil.