Id needed

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Id needed

Postby miktor » Wed Nov 12, 2008 6:42 am

Hi there, i bought few cichlid's recently, unfortunately i have few suspicious about their true name (seller told me that theese are A.Atahualpa, A.Cruzi - but i have suggestions about them beeing A.Eunotus, A.barlowi)..
Here are their pictures:

http://pl.fotoalbum.eu/miktor/a179022

If someone could identify them for me - i would really appreciate it, if able please assign numbers of photos to name given (and if possible also mark if that's male/female).
Theese ones are young, still i think there is possibility to identify them at this moment.

Ps: English is not my native language, so forgive me if i did not use propper grammar or words ;).
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Re: Id needed

Postby Bas Pels » Wed Nov 12, 2008 8:13 am

As A. stands for apistogramma, I think the Dwarfcichlid forum might help you further.
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Re: Id needed

Postby miktor » Wed Nov 12, 2008 9:08 am

Thanks for advice.
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Re: Id needed

Postby Florent » Wed Nov 12, 2008 9:33 am

Apistogramma are not the fishes I better know but I think the first one is a male A. barlowi and all others are another species 4.6 and 7 males, 2 3 5 and 8 females.
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Re: Id needed

Postby Lisachromis » Wed Nov 12, 2008 11:20 am

I'll move this to the dwarf cichlid section, where Mike Wise will probably be able to help out better. He'd be the one helping at apistogramma.com as well.
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Re: Id needed

Postby Mike Wise » Wed Nov 12, 2008 3:35 pm

It is more helpful if you give names under which the fish were sold. Do you have any idea from which country the fish come? Sadly most of the photos show the fish out of focus or the fish show few diagnostic features. This makes identification very difficult. These are my best guesses:

1. A. barlowi (Mouthbrooder/Maulbrüter) - male
2. A. cf. eunotus(?) - female
3. A. cf. eunotus(?) - female
4. A. sp. Nanay/Melgar(?) - Male
5. A. cf. eunotus - female
6. A. sp. Nanay/Melgar(?) - Male
7. A. sp. Nanay/Melgar(?) - Male
8. regani-group species, possibly A. cf. eunotus - female
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Re: Id needed

Postby miktor » Thu Nov 13, 2008 1:19 am

In general, they were sold as A.Cruzi, and A.atahualpa.
Unfortunately i have no clue where did they came from (bought in Poland & distributed here as wel).
I had doubts about their true nature so i figured out i might ask someone else.

For sure eunotus would fit in here, altough second "trio" (bought 3 of "atahualpa" and 3 of "Cruzi") is still unknown to me. Hope it's not some big mix of different species.

Added new photos, i am not a good photographer - so it's all i could do for now. Numerated the photos from 1-6 for each fish.
Same adress :

http://pl.fotoalbum.eu/miktor/a179541
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