Re: Moae? pictures

[Scott <zerelli@yahoo.com>]

Those are the fish that I had a while back and was
unsuccessful at IDing. There is no doubt in my mind, I
think that you will see the caudal fin color begin to
get darker as time goes on and that there will be a
horizontal band of no color or a dark color that
extands from the caudal peduncle. I found the males to
be pretty aggressive. Did you by chance get them in a
pet store?

--- Mike & Diane Wise <apistowise@fgn.net> wrote:
> Francine,
> 
> The fish look like photos of one that Julio M. sent
> me a year or 2 ago.
> Although the look very much like A. moae, there are
> differences. Your photos
> show males with vertical bars that extend  down to
> the ventral edge of the
> body. A. moae's vertical bars rarely extend beyond
> the lateral band & never to
> the ventral edge of the body. Some of your pictures
> show a broadening of Bar 6
> at the base &, although dark, may indicate that
> there is split in the bar at
> the base. This can't occur in A. moae since Bar 6
> doesn't reach the ventral
> edge (at least in live specimens). Some of your
> photos show males with fairly
> pronounced abdominal stripes. A. moae doesn't show
> abdominal stripes. Instead
> it has very faint 'dashes' formed by slightly darker
> pigment on the leading
> edge of each scale (sometimes covered by red
> pigment).
>     I think that this is the fish that I suggested
> Julio call A. cf. moae
> because it looks very much like the true A. moae. In
> his new book Koslowski
> calls it A. sp. Tahuayo.
> 
> Mike Wise
> 
> FBethea wrote:
> 
> > This is the Url to the Ap moae pictures that I
> took of
> > a fish purchased labled as such.  This fish does
> not
> > match the pictures in Romer's book.  Anyone have
> any
> > idea what this fish could be?
> >
> > www.afishyonado.com/moae.html
> >
> > Francine
> >
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