Re: Pertensis

[Tim Ellis <timellis@flash.net>]

I just got back to respond. The fish were sent up by Mark Whittle. He collected
them while guiding a tour of the ruins around there. The funny thing is Mark
spent 5 days in a military stockade for trespassing on private property. The
place was right next to the river and amazingly enough the gaurds let him keep
the fish and let him do water changes. At this point it is very difficult to ID
themas they are still very small. The reason I asked about A. sp. orangesaum is
that two of them look just like the pictures in the Tetra book. One looks like
the male with the abdominal stripes and a black patch in the peduncle following a
white band. Kinda like A. four stripes only different. The female is quite plump
in the belly area and is displaying a side spot most of the time. Both have the
exact same dorsal as shown in the Tetra book. First few dorsal rays are slightly
fused and the rest are fused just below the tips, and both have a red line on top
of the dorsal.

Tim


Doug Brown wrote:

> Hiya,
>
> Dave Soares brought in A. sp. Minima from his trip to Germany last year and
> spawned them so there might be some of these around!
>
> >Are there any other pertensis  fish like the A. orangesaum that are from
> >the Upper Rio Orinoco area? I have some mystery Apistos from that area
> >that lool a lot like  A. orangesaum.
> >
> >Tim
>
> -Doug Brown
> debrown@kodak.com
>
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