Which tefé?

[Joost S]

Sorry, I moved the topic to the right section:
http://forum.apistogramma.com/showthread.php?p=25068#post25068

 

[LindaMC]

That's a beautiful fish, is that the true color in the photo? Looks a bit like a Rio but hard to tell, I haven't been keeping apistos all that long. I have a pair of agassizi red tails and will be getting a pair of cacatuoides orange flash's in a few weeks, they're still very small right now.

Hopefully someone will be a long to identify this fish soon, I'd also like to know.

 

[Apisto ranch]

I'd have to gree with blue bell it looks more like the A. sp. tefe to me as well. Again like linda I'm not a pro at IDing thou I'm getting better. LOL

 

[Joost S]

Yes, these are the true colors of the fish. Thank you for your opinions.

 

[Mike Wise]

Do you know where this fish comes from? It looks like the "Net/Netz" form of A. agassizii to me. This form occurs in northern tributaries of the Amazon, east of the Rio Negro. A. cf. agassizii ("Netz" Alenquer) is the form most commonly seen in the hobby.

 

[apistodave]

I'm down with Mike, even at this small size the lateral banding on Rio Tefe' is much more noticeable than it is on these. At about 1" mine start to show it very clearly. Something else about Tefe'--I am fairly well convinced that all color forms of agassizi throw different colors, I have had all of them show up with some red tailed and some white tailed variants. Just last July at Frank wilhelms I saw some unbeleivable fire red males and females that showed up in a spawn of plain ole blue agasszi, I'm including a picture of that one here. I got some really great looking Rio Tefe' redbacks at Glasers last year. IN one spawn of about 50 young I have had some sports show up. One little male has fins that are completely red-caudal, dorsal, anal, I have had 3 others show up with the white edges and red inners.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y177/apistodave/DSCN3867.jpg

 

[Joost S]

Thank you for your contributions!