What Apistogramma is this?

[UnicornsvstheWorld]

I was recently sold a pair of 'Apistogramma cacatuoides' and I bought them as I thought they would be a good fish to start learning to breed dwarf cichlids. In the past I had kept a type of Apistogramma cactouides and thought these were just an albino variety but they show no characteristics. Now I don't think they are actually what they were labeled as. I only managed to get pictures of the male when I first got him two weeks ago, their tank is very different now. Anyway here's the pictures.

Also a little question is that are they as easy to breed as the Apistogramma cactuoides are supposed to be?

 

[aquaticclarity]

Apistogramma viejita "gold" is the trade name. It's a man made form via selective breeding. Some of the strains get some incredible red/red-orange to them. Feed them some baby brine shrimp or similar to help bring out the color and ou should have some nice display tank fish.

 

[UnicornsvstheWorld]

Thank you so much I have been searching for ages on a species. I feed then live blood worm at the moment but I will give baby brine shrimp a try.

 

[Mike Wise]

Yes, it's actually a domestic color strain of A. macmasteri. They might not be quite as easy to reproduce as A. cacatuoides, but not really difficult.

 

[UnicornsvstheWorld]

Thank you, I will just have to do loads of research.