Silver Apistogramma ID

[MaestroCygni]

Hi, my local fish store has had this fish for a few months. We don't really know what it is, nor what it was imported as. It could've been as regani or steindachneri, but at least to me it doesn't look like either. Maybe you guys have a possible ID?

 

[Frank Hättich]

Looks like a cruzi-subcomplex species to me.

 

[Mike Wise]

I think Frank is right, but is that a split in Bar 6 that I see??

 

[Frank Hättich]

I think Frank is right, but is that a split in Bar 6 that I see??

Splits in the posterior bars occasionally occur in specimens of the cruzi- and ortegai-subcomplex too. It's just that in these subcomplexes they are exceptions whereas in the eunotus-subcomplex they are the rule.