Strawberry

[blueblue]

Strawberry ^.^

 

[valice]

Ooooo... one of my favourite Peruvian Apisto...
Very beautiful red cheeks.
Wild? Or bred?

 

[Genes]

Great looking specimen. Those that we got here are pale and whitish in colour. Yours is so red!

 

[blueblue]

Ooooo... one of my favourite Peruvian Apisto...
Very beautiful red cheeks.
Wild? Or bred?

100% wildcaught direct import from Peru

It's selected from a bag of strawberry...

PS: Looking at it, people should know how ugly the strawberry's pictures are in Uwe's CAII...

 

[blueblue]

Great looking specimen. Those that we got here are pale and whitish in colour. Yours is so red!

again, not every specimen is that red; i picked one pair from each of the two consecutive imports and i have got an even better looking pair.... but the male fish is very shy that i failed to capture a nice shot of it

 

[peterK]

Looking at it, people should know how ugly the strawberry's pictures are in Uwe's CAII...

Yes, you are 100% right. The photos in Uwe's Atlas are very dark.
But, of course, your photos are very good (as always^.^).
By the way, I like 'Strawberries' much more than their close related spiecies, I mean Bitas.

Piotr>>>

 

[brad]

What's the scientific name for "Strawberry"? (I mean the fish, not the fruit):wink:

 

[blueblue]

Yes, you are 100% right. The photos in Uwe's Atlas are very dark.
But, of course, your photos are very good (as always^.^).
By the way, I like 'Strawberries' much more than their close related spiecies, I mean Bitas.

Piotr>>>

Hi Piotr: Yes, me too... you see, i basically keep very few bita while i used to keep quite a lot of A. eremnopyge (Strawberry)... ^_^

 

[blueblue]

What's the scientific name for "Strawberry"? (I mean the fish, not the fruit):wink:

Hi Brad, it is A. eremnopyge ^.^ (A sp. "Strawberry" is also one of its many names)

 

[zmirek]

Hi

but the male fish is very shy that i failed to capture a nice shot of it

I've noted from several e-mails found here that eremnopyge is considered to be a shy species.

Frankly speaking I have quite different experience. I have rised group of eremnopyge (together with same size group of A. sp. Abacaxis) from 1 cm fry to adult. Now I am keeping them in 240L tank and to tell about them as "shy" is the last word I could tell.

Maybe the key is to keep them in groups (mine is 2 males and 6 females) instead of keeping in pairs. I do prefer such way of keeping dwarf cichlids even if it requires more spacious tanks and automatically reduces number of species kept.

All the best

 

[johnnyboy]

nice

My wildcaught eremnopyge

 

[beleg]

Quite tall fish.