Re: Apistogramma frank

[Mike & Diane Wise <apistowise@bewellnet.com>]

Very Good Kelly! It is A. sp. Pebas. Morado/Purple is just one of the color forms of Pebas. Pebas is closely related to the
cruzi-complex, but Koslowski (2002) has placed it & A. sp. Papagei/Parrot in the Pebas-complex.

This obviously is not the same fish pictured on Aquarium Lima web site as "A. sp. Frank" That fish is A. elizabethae. That sure makes
their marketing approach rather questionable.

Mike Wise

kelly_higgins@cox.net wrote:

> Ken, They look like possibly A. sp. Morado to me. In the cruzi complex closly related to A. papagei. Im constantly wrong though. 8-)
> KellyHiggins
> >
> > From: Ken Roese <Cichlids1@direcway.com>
> > Date: 2003/02/01 Sat PM 03:59:58 EST
> > To: apisto@listbox.com
> > Subject: Apistogramma frank
> >
> >       New species or old species, new name? I haven't been able to gather too
> > much information on them. I know they are from Aquarium Lima, and the
> > drawing of a fish they have labeled as A. frank is nowhere close to what
> > these have turned in to.
> >
> >       Here are links to a couple pictures of mine:
> >
> > http://www.roundtownaquatics.com/images/apisto_frank.jpg
> >
> > http://www.roundtownaquatics.com/images/apisto_frank1.jpg
> >
> > http://www.roundtownaquatics.com/images/apisto_frank2.jpg
> >
> > I've got a group in a 15g tank with some driftwood and a few plants, mostly
> > hair algae ;-)  They have spawned a couple times but haven't been able to
> > get them much past free swimming yet. Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ken
> >
> >
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