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Like I said about this fish at Apistogramma group at FaceBook. First look at shape of body- A. viejita is the most slender Apisto from A. macmasteri subcomplex, your fish is really bulky(and that hump on head ;) ). Next you should look at shape of caudal fin- A. viejita should have round, no...
Aren't Camallanus worms viviparous and Capillaria worms oviparous? And because they are viviparous they don;t have any problems to infect new tanks- we can take larvae with fishing net, hosepipe, with water when we are taking fish from one tank to another.
With copepods we can infect our fishes...
I was asking Anton Lamboj about N. sp. "Green Speckle" and now they are form of C. sabinae, not C. dimidiatus. Now I have two females of similiar(or the same) form of C. sabinae, males will come in next week. Now they are glued to front of tank waiting for something to eat for all days. :)
Because that "female" -> http://i554.photobucket.com/albums/jj404/Fishy-Boy/Fish/DSCF5555_zps6ac427bf.jpg
simply looks like cac?:>It's not a A. allpahuayo(former Black-Chin) because caudal spot isn't separated from lateral band.
Female of A. eremnopyge looks like that:
And now?
Darrel, you make me embarrassed . :) Now I'm re-arranging most of my tanks(after 8 months long fight with Ichthyophonus hoferi) so when I'm done I'll update my threads. ;)
In Poland we also have a many apisto keepers who are really good in natural looking tanks. "Hi-tech" tanks are really rare here. The latest fashion(after shrimps and nature aquarium) is exactly a black water tanks, in many case with Apisto. :) A really good access to wild Apisto( in peruvian...