RE: Apisto. Nijsseni?

[Thomas Mroz <tmroz@art-inc.com>]

Thanks for the replies.  I looked at these fish some more last night
after posting and found a few other details that might help describe
them:

The "male" has a light blue spade-like patch that starts at the Caudal
Peduncle and extends into the Caudal fin.  The female has this as well,
but hers is black.  The male has fairly bright yellow-ish coloration in
the unpaired fins, and has a yellow coloration in the pectoral fins,
which end in red.  The female's pectorals are black, with red tips. 
Looking at them again, they are definitely a pair.

Here I was trying to figure out how to get A. pandurini when you all
were talking about them a few months ago, and meanwhile, perhaps they
have come to me!

Anybody have breeding success with them?  How about pictures on the net?

I am surprised at how well they are doing in my tap water, which is
typically about 160 ppm, and a pH in the mid-7's.  They are really quite
vigorous - much better than Nijsseni which I have kept before, even
those that I kept in "appropriate" water conditions.

Tom
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>From: 	mengerin@cs.utexas.edu[SMTP:mengerin@cs.utexas.edu]
>Sent: 	Tuesday, November 12, 1996 1:53 PM
>To: 	Thomas Mroz
>Subject: 	Re: Apisto. Nijsseni?
>
>>  the nice, black ventral fins.  The other half had the clear, yellow fins
>>  you would expect from a male.  Further, the "males" central spots were
>>  smaller, and round, whereas the "females" spots were more like blotches,
>
>That sounds like the potential subspecies, Apistogramma pandurini
>("Blue Sky").
>There is some debate as to whether or not it is a njisseni or a not,
>but other
>than some patch work and a little difference in coloring they look
>exactly
>alike.
>
>				Cheers,
>				Matthew
>