Re: Sacrimontis or pulcher ?

[Frauley Elson <fraulels@minet.ca>]

My gut feeling on 'sacrimontis' (not an officially described species) is that
it's very much a 'distribution species'. It's very similar to pulcher, but you
have to know where it's from to know if it is what it is (if that makes sense to
anyone but me).
I've seen tanks of wild 'sacromontis' from the Cross River system with fairly
distinct colour forms all mixed together, right beside wild pulcher from
elsewhere, and except for dominant males, it was a hard call. It would have been
necessary to take them home to let them colour up.
This doesn't anser your question, as I never kept them together to see if they'd
cross. I guess all I'm doing is saying you've got a good question...

-Gary
Simon Voorwinde wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've got a few questions so I'll just list them;
>
> 1. Will sacrimontis hybridise with pulcher ? The reason I ask is that I have
> a beautiful male pulcher that I had spent a long time searching for a nice
> female for. I finally found one and placed them together and so far
> nothing - not even the slightest display by the female and they have been
> together about 2 months. I bought her in a shop that was full of nice big
> males that I thought looked rather nice. Some had tail spots others didn't.
> I bought a nice male for a friend that had one tail spot, no dorsal spots,
> but a broad black patch on his dorsal. I put the new big male in with my
> pair to settle down before my friend picked it up in a day or two and the
> instant I let him free the female I originally had turned almost black,
> coloured up and began arching and quivering in front of the new male. Of
> course the two males began to fight requiring separation.  Do you think I
> could have bought a sacrimontis by mistake and does this explain why the
> original pair didn't begin to spawn ?
>
> 2. A book I have has a pic of Pelvicachromis cf. pulcher that has lots more
> red than a pulcher, is bigger and is stated to be more robust and vigorous.
> I this the same as P. sacrimontis ?
>
> 3. The book also says that there is two distinct forms of cf. pulcher - one
> that is covered with red from the mouth to the anal fin and another which
> has red colouring similar to P. pulcher. The new male I have has a red strip
> about 3mm long along the edge of the bottom jaw. Question is how do you tell
> male and female P. sacrimontis from P. pulcher ?
>
> I have pics of both if that will help.
>
> TIA
>
> Simon Voorwinde
> http://thecichlidtank.cjb.net
>
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