Hi all,
I bought a couple of fish from a tank of what looked (to me) to be all male A. ortegai. I gambled on the pale runt-y one hiding behind the filter, and lucked out--she's female! All the fish in that tank should have been descendants of the ones in this other thread, and therefore ortegai. The description paper makes a big deal of the "drop shaped" caudal blotch as a way to distinguish 'Pebas', and hers looks a bit like a double blotch, but also distinctly wedge-shaped. Here are some pics:
Can anyone confirm whether these fish are both ortegai sensu stricto, or whether my female is cf. ortegai?
Thanks!
I bought a couple of fish from a tank of what looked (to me) to be all male A. ortegai. I gambled on the pale runt-y one hiding behind the filter, and lucked out--she's female! All the fish in that tank should have been descendants of the ones in this other thread, and therefore ortegai. The description paper makes a big deal of the "drop shaped" caudal blotch as a way to distinguish 'Pebas', and hers looks a bit like a double blotch, but also distinctly wedge-shaped. Here are some pics:
Can anyone confirm whether these fish are both ortegai sensu stricto, or whether my female is cf. ortegai?
Thanks!