"NY" Apisto mystery

["kkorotev" <kkorotev@ameritech.net>]

OK.
If you've been holding your breath, you can stop.
"NY" are the first two letters of NYSANTE which is the ID on the LFS tank
for some wild Apistos...10 of which I brought home last week. Is it a
location?  A made-up name?  Does it really matter anymore?

Upon investigation in Linke and Staeck's "American Cichlids I, DWARF
CICHLIDS" and the Aqualog poster of APISTOGRAMMA, I believe these fish to
be....
(drum roll....)
young  caucatoides (wild form, no orange whatsover)
or
young bitaeniata.

So...can anyone give me a fool-proof way of differentiating?
(I think I know, but some of you are so much smarter about this than I'll
ever be)

Kevin Korotev-Milwaukee


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