Re: sp. "Opal"?

[David Sanchez <barbax2@yahoo.com>]

Hi Doug, the  opals are a color variety of good old Apistogramma
borelli they come in wild just like that. I go to the South American
Importers and they are very common and are sent to Europe by my
importers as a hot bread and butter fish. good luck doug they are very
pretty and easy to breed!!

Dave.





- ---doug  wrote:
>
> My LFS just got in a pair of apistos he was told are this. THey sure
aren't
> in Linke and Staek or Richter. The male looks a lot like borelli
with red
> spots and iridescent blue on the face, but the body is more drab
with a
> broken lateral line and that "broad transversal banded pattern". There
> is no caudal spot or ab stripes, but the lateral line runs into the 
> caudal fin ala borelli. Kathy Olsen sent me a preprint of her article
> with A. sp. "Opalita" scribbled in under the borelli group. Could this
> be it?
> 
> -Doug
> 
> 
>
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