Newish additions

[rr16]

Bueller, Bueller, anyone, anyone...

 

[rr16]

There's a good chance the images aren't good enough to tell for the apistos - they also seem to have disappeared from a couple of the pictures!

 

[Frank Hättich]

my guess would be A. cf. pertensis or something closely related

 

[rr16]

They were labelled as A. pertensis so my guess would be that they are A. cf pertensis. I emailed the shop but he had no catch location as they'd come from a wholesaler first. Do they even look like they could be a pair or is the less developed one likely a sub male. The yellower, smaller one doesn;t appear to have black on her pelvic fins, but I don't know whether they do in this group or not.

 

[Frank Hättich]

how large is the smaller fish and can you try to take a better photo of him/her please?

 

[rr16]

I'll give it a go later. It's hard to get focussed as the tank is so dark! They are both around 4 cm I think.

 

[rr16]

Can't even find the smaller one today. Hope it's a sign of a spawning female. The tank is pretty densely planted.
Here are a few pics

 

[Frank Hättich]

fingers crossed, but if the smaller one is a male too, he could simply be hiding to avoid aggression by the larger one.

 

[rr16]

Here are a couple of not so good photos of number 2!

 

[Frank Hättich]

if it's in fact 4cm, I'm quite sure that it's a female.

 

[rr16]

Will have to check my measurements, what with us British and our Imperialistic ways!