Re: Lemon Forest Jewel

["Ron Romigh" <rromigh@ccia.com>]

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Mike I think the fish you have is Hemichromis payonis. I'm not sure about
the spelling but I had the same fish a few years ago and was told that this
was a valid species.

Ron Romigh 

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> From: Mike & Diane Wise <apistowise@bewellnet.com>
> To: apisto@majordomo.pobox.com
> Subject: Lemon Forest Jewel
> Date: Saturday, May 23, 1998 2:34 PM
> 
> I know this isn't about apistos, but maybe someone out there can answer
> my question.  At an auction last Fall I got some fish called "Lemon
> Forest Jewels".  They were small and looked like Hemichormis cristatus,
> the dwarf Forest Jewel.  As they grew, they got larger than H.
> cristatus, about the size of the common jewel in the hobby.  After
> checking Loiselle's key to the genus Hemichormis in an old Buntbarsche
> Bulletin, they keyed out to be H. lifalili, except that, when in brood
> dress, the area above the anal fin up to about mid-flank isn't bright
> red, but olive-yellow.  The rest of the body was bright red with
> metallic blue spots just like H. lifalili. They don't have a caudal
> spot, only a bold opercular spot and a narrow, less prominent, oval
> patch slightly above and behind mid-flank.  The flank spot has a pale
> gold halo around it, much fainter than that seen on H. cristatus.  When
> out of brood dress that are a pinkish olive color and the halo around
> the flank spot remains visible.
> 
> Any information/history on this fish would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Mike Wise
> 
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