pandurini's box

[Elson/Frauley <fraulels@minet.ca>]

Hi everyone,
	It's -44 in windy Montreal, so I thought I'd stay inside and ask a question. As 
you'll have noticed if you've read my recent postings, I'm having fun with apistogramma 
sp. 'pandurini'. Here's the question.
	I have two different pandurinis. One came in a few months ago as Apistogramma 
norberti, which it isn't. The male is like a souped up njisseni, in many ways. he has a 
sky blue body and red-orange tail edging - quite a sight. The female is consistent with 
descriptions of pandurini. As an experiment, I put female 'pandurini 1" in with male 
njisseni, and the njisseni almost got killed. As soon as a 'sky-blue' male went in, they 
spawned.
	Form 2 came in a month later. Females are identical to form 1, but the male is 
remarkable. It's characterized by a large black spot at the base of the caudal, and a 
caudal that looks like a transplant from a nice aggassizii. As unscientific as this 
sounds, it's a njisseni body with an aga tail - quite a fish! I haven't spawned this 
fish yet - they came in more ragged than the first morph and cost me a fish-fortune in 
losses.
	Both fish are notably more aggressive than any njisseni I've kept, and seem to 
like cruising the surface. I was using killies as dithers, and these are the only only 
apistos I've kept that devour wingless fruit flies as soon as they hit the surface. 
Others will pick at them nervously, these guys wallop them.
	So, everybody, what are we calling these two forms? This plot has thickened - 
but we do have two distinct morphs of what appears the same fish - we have to keep them 
apart, especially given the appearance of the females. Names might help me at my end ifI 
ever distribute them.
						Gary 
PS - Mike Jacobs, whoever you are - every message I send comes back with the 
Mailer-Daemon complaining about your server or address or whatever... There are always 4 
or 5 bounce backs for each posting, but you're a favorite, for what it's worth. Might be 
worth checking it out.