Please identify these wild apistos!!!

[Hudson Ensz]

Mike wise has helped me so much already but i was just wondering if the rest of the experts could confirm them.
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What is this fish?

Is this a bitaeniata?

Is this A cf. pertensis? It sifts sand the most of any of my apistos.

 

[bourdinite]

1 ???
2 bitaeniata
3 cf pertensis

 

[Microman]

The body shape of Apisto 3 looks almost too slender for it to be A cf.pertensis, dorsal fin is also quite high in comparison.
This fish could be the true A pertensis???
Difficult from the pic though....
Mark

 

[Hudson Ensz]

Bourdinite. thank you for confirming the bitaeniata, i thought it was but some one had doubt so i thought i would check with you guys.
Microman i too think it is not cf. pertensis, if it is, i have never seen cf. pertensis. i have a new fish that i believe too be cf. pertensis and they are not the same species. I see that i am not alone in my hypothesis.
Sorry for the bad pic more is coming tomorow.:wink:

 

[Hudson Ensz]

Look at http://www.cichlidae.com/forum/viewt...91ccbc1557a2e7
for more pics, all the pertensis, or cf. pertensis on this thread is the same fish.
If it helps at all this fish is ALWAYS sifting sand through its gills much like geophagus, it also NEVER goes to the top of the tank.
K-pon's fish, in the following thread http://forum.apistogramma.com/showthread.php?t=7901&page=2 is not the same. mine has larger dorsal differant shaped head differant pattern, lower back, and differant habits, as you can see in his pictures the fish seems to be more active in the higher strats, not sifting sand in the bottom.
I hope the above makes some sense to you guys and i hope it helped.

 

[Hudson Ensz]

More pictures.
If what i saw in a book by H. Axelrod, is the true pertensis then i think that mine is too, they looked identical. (it was labeled as A. pertensis)

 

[Hudson Ensz]

This is the same fish as the last photo.

Same as the above.

This is not as high up its fin can go, it is awesome.
same as the above.

Is this a female agassizii? it is beginning to get markings on its tail.