Female dominated? A.nijsseni

[zhihuai1982]

I have a pair of A. nijsseni, you can see them in this post. http://www.apistogramma.com/forum/threads/will-this-couple-breeding-a-nijsseni.17423/#post-84505

I raise them separately, and today I let the female into the male's tank, the female seems to be dominating in the tank. The male one has frightened into the corner. The size of female and male is same. the female one is in yellow mood. What should I do to let the female spawn?

 

[zhihuai1982]

this is what the male one looks like, it is about 5cm in size.

 

[Imrahil]

The body shape, high position of the lateral spot and shape of the jugal bar are those of a male A. nijsseni. But the black pelvian fins is an unusual character for a male A. nijsseni. While it is not a good character for sexing most Apistogramma species, it's usually usefull for sexing young A. nijsseni (as well as A. panduro).

 

[zhihuai1982]

the male one shows his belly to the female one, what dose this mean?

 

[MickeM]

Hi ..

This videos are showing female vs. female behaviour I think. (when no male is present ..)

I have watched your earlier video also..
I guess you have got 2 females... 1 nijsseni (yellow)+ 1 ???????

The spot on the body is much smaller and is placed almost above the lateral band compared to the yellow female
+ the caudal spot is also much bigger on this "unknown" female.. "She" is looking like Ap. martini/pantalone..( Apart the split caudal fin !! ), but to me she is not!?????!!!!!????!!
Especially visualized in the video in your first thread...!!
By the way...Ap. nijsseni males do get much more blue ..

Check with your Store if they had any other Apisto species closely related to nijsseni in their tanks at the moment you got yours !

To me, they are not belonging to the same Apisto species..


/MickeM

 

[zhihuai1982]

thanks all, is there any possibility that the "male" one is Apistogramma sp. ”Oregon” ?

and some more information. http://apisto.sites.no/fish.aspx?fishIndexID=2386&gruppeID=1

 

[Mike Wise]

Yes Oregon or even Zwilling are possibilities. It is hard to ID the fish from just 1 photo, especially since I can't see the shape of the dorsal fin.