A.viejita vs. mcmasteri

["Ed Pon" <edpon@hotmail.com>]

I've suffered the same dilema about identifying Viejita from McMasteri.  I've 
been told, and I think I recall reading from the Link and Staek bible, that 
McMasteri grow considerably larger than Viejita. I once had a male McMasteri 
that approached 4 inches in total length. 
I usually buy a group and grow them to see if they are McMasteri.

 If you have access to the Pacific Coast Cichlid Association's bimonthly 
publication, the Cichlidae Communique, the is a great article written by Hal 
Makin describing A. Viejita vs A. McMasteri. I'm not sure what issue the article 
was in, but it the title was something like "A Totem Animal".  Maybe someone 
else out there has that information.