Please help with ID

[steveapex]

Hello everyone, can some knows which apisto this, in the atore they say is A. Viejita but I Googled and doesn't look like the fish in the results.

his name is Marcus btw

thanks in advance.

 

[MacZ]

Nice fish, but: Could you take a picture in neutral white light? The blueish light is shifting the colours.

 

[Frank Hättich]

It's most likely A. sp. Schwarzkehl/Black-throat which unfortunately is still often called "A. viejita III" despite it being not just a population/form of A. viejita but rather a separate species. "Most likely" because there are two other forms, D29 and D30, which can be safely distinguished from Schwarzkehl only by means of their catch locations. However, since the latter two are from more remote areas and afaik have never been in the trade so far, I'm quite sure your fish is Schwarzkehl. Btw when you google for A. viejita 90% of the results you find will be A. macmasteri...

 

[steveapex]

Nice fish, but: Could you take a picture in neutral white light? The blueish light is shifting the colours.

Sure, here the pic with white light. Even though he has a little blue in his dorsal fin

 

[MacZ]

Sure, here the pic with white light. Even though he has a little blue in his dorsal fin
View attachment 10168

A really great specimen you got there! Congrats!
I have nothing to add to Frank's ID.
It was really just about the blue light shifting the color saturation so I had trouble seeing the yellow patterns.

 

[steveapex]

It's most likely A. sp. Schwarzkehl/Black-throat which unfortunately is still often called "A. viejita III" despite it being not just a population/form of A. viejita but rather a separate species. "Most likely" because there are two other forms, D29 and D30, which can be safely distinguished from Schwarzkehl only by means of their catch locations. However, since the latter two are from more remote areas and afaik have never been in the trade so far, I'm quite sure your fish is Schwarzkehl. Btw when you google for A. viejita 90% of the results you find will be A. macmasteri...

Thank so much Frank, is definitely a A. sp Schwarzkohl, your answer has been more than instructional.

 

[MacZ]

Thank so much Frank, is definitely a A. sp Schwarzkohl, your answer has been more than instructional.

It's "SchwarzkEhl" with an e, (meaning "black throat"), "Schwarzkohl" is literally "black cabbage", meaning Italian Kale. Sry, I teach German.

 

[MacZ]

And I just realised that "kehl" is pronounced almost identical to "kale".

 

[steveapex]

It's "SchwarzkEhl" with an e, (meaning "black throat"), "Schwarzkohl" is literally "black cabbage", meaning Italian Kale. Sry, I teach German.

Oh yeah, I wrote it wrong. Thanks for the clarification, I´ll just gonna call him black throat jeje

 

[MacZ]

Oh yeah, I wrote it wrong. Thanks for the clarification, I´ll just gonna call him black throat jeje

All fine, mistakes happen, I just found that a funny coincidence.

 

[mwoodrn74]

Oh yeah, I wrote it wrong. Thanks for the clarification, I´ll just gonna call him black throat jeje

He makes a great spy. He fooled the seller and most of the internet!