Re: New species?

[Scott <zerelli@yahoo.com>]

Black borders? Are those identifiers for rotpunkt? How
about an orange tail with a clear area that could
almost be yellow in the center? THe single apisto I
have has developed this, it is quite a nice looking
fish. A shame that I have no chance of ever getting a
female for him.


--- Mike & Diane Wise <apistowise@bewellnet.com>
wrote:
> 
> Eric,
> 
> I don't know of any male apisto that normally broods
> its fry. Many will do it
> for a while, and often take on the yellow/black
> brood dress of the female. I've
> even had male Nannacara anomala males brood fry and
> change their pattern to the
> typical crosshatched brood pattern. I have a
> Rotpunkt male that has kept its
> juvenile (female-like) colors that often "yellows"
> up when one of the females
> has fry. I can only separate him from the females by
> the well developed black
> borders on his dorsal and anal fins.
> 
> Mike Wise


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