Copella nattereri (?)

[3ze]

Hi you all

About a month ago, I was able to buy 7 Copella, species nattereri according to the shopowner.
The colours they had in the shop were greyisch, so I couldn't really ID the fish.

I managed to get some pictures, some in normal colours, other when "making out" on a leaf.
Their "love colours" make me believe it's an other species, but since they're my first Copella's, I've no idea...

Normal coloration

Love coloration

I'd love to hear it from you all

 

[3ze]

Nobody got an idea?

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,
Hopefully you'll get a reply from Mike or Ste, but if you look back through the threads "Apistomaster" has bred a lot of these different Copella/Pyrrhulina type Tetras, and there should be an ID some-where:

<http://www.apistogramma.com/forum/index.php?threads/splashing-tetra-id.11598/page-2#post-64748>.

cheers Darrel

 

[Mike Wise]

I think that once you link to TomC's site you'll see that your fish are not the true C. nattereri. They look more like C. meinkeni, but I can't be positive from just these 2 less than optimal photos for ID purposes.