Bill, See http://www.thekrib.com/Apisto/A-sp-puerto-narino.html for some info. If you count the combined info on "Schwarzsaum", "Puerto Narino", and "Rotpunkt", there's actually quite a lot out there. I'll leave it to the other esteemed species experts on the list to explain the exact differences, if any, between these three. :) What I know: they're cool. We spawned them in neutral water and had a lot of fun. They were our 2nd Apisto to spawn ever. - Erik On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Bill Hickman wrote: > I just picked up 6 juveniles today at a local club fish auction. I asked at > the auction but no one around me seemed to know anything about them. I just > looked for them in my American Cichlids I, Dwarf Cichlids and Dr. Axelrod's > Mini-Atlas with no luck. I guess they are new enough that they don't appear > in my books or this name is incorrect. > What do we know about this Apisto and what does the sp. mean in the name. > Thanks in advance for anyone offering info. > > Bill Hickman > Mascoutah IL. > hickmanb@accessus.net > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Downey <windwalker@uky.campuscw.net> > To: apisto@majordomo.pobox.com <apisto@majordomo.pobox.com> > Date: Sunday, December 06, 1998 8:09 AM > Subject: Re: Pelv taeniatus > > > >>>I've had my second pair of P. taeniatus "Wouri" spawn. My first ate > >>>their fry. It seems that the wrigglers of these fish are smaller than > >>>that of P. pulcher that I have spawned in the past. > > > > > >Mike, > > > >All the taeniatus fry seem to be smaller and they grow much slower than the > >P. pulcher fry in my observations. The largest male taeniatus that I have > >observed is only 11 cm (tl) and I have seen some huge male pulcher. One > >wild specimen was 15 cm TL. > > > >I find most pulcher don't mind human observations while they fry are young. > >My taeniatus will often eat fry at the intruding face of a child or overly > >anxious adult peering into the tank while the fry are newly out of the > cave. > > > >As a note: I have recently obtained some taeniatus "Moliwe" to mix with the > >strain I have that are loaded with caudil and dorsal dots. Some females > >have 4 in the dorsal and the caudil. Most wild ones that I have seen have > >1 or 2 at the most on the females. I beleive these to be F1 . Are there > >others out there that would comment on their "Moliwe" dot quantities? > > > >MikeD > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >This is the apistogramma mailing list, apisto@majordomo.pobox.com. > >For instructions on how to subscribe or unsubscribe or get help, > >email apisto-request@majordomo.pobox.com. > >Search http://altavista.digital.com for "Apistogramma Mailing List > Archives"! > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This is the apistogramma mailing list, apisto@majordomo.pobox.com. > For instructions on how to subscribe or unsubscribe or get help, > email apisto-request@majordomo.pobox.com. > Search http://altavista.digital.com for "Apistogramma Mailing List Archives"! > -- Erik Olson erik at thekrib dot com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the apistogramma mailing list, apisto@majordomo.pobox.com. For instructions on how to subscribe or unsubscribe or get help, email apisto-request@majordomo.pobox.com. Search http://altavista.digital.com for "Apistogramma Mailing List Archives"!