Domestic Hongsloi or Hongsloi rotstricht ?

[shoshone]

Hi everybody.

All is in the title.
A friend have been this fish "wild honglsoi. What do you think ?

Thanks for your help

 

[Mike Wise]

They are the Rotstich morph of A. hongsloi. Personally, I've never seen wild specimens with so much red. I would suspect that they are a domestic bred with all of that color. I couuld be wrong, however.

 

[Cichlid Junkie]

Beautiful fish either way.

 

[shoshone]

Thanks a lot Mike,one time more.

 

[shoshone]

I talk me and, i would like to know what do you think, that this form of hongsloi have can be selected in the "farms" on the spot and it would be run away and developed in the wild.

It' a possibility do you know ?

Amicalement

 

[Mike Wise]

I know of no one who commercially breeds apistos in Colombia. It is too expensive. It is much easier just to collect this species in the wild.

 

[shoshone]

I know of no one who commercially breeds apistos in Colombia. It is too expensive. It is much easier just to collect this species in the wild.

Yes, i know that. But fews farms tryed in passed.
I don't know how is in the other countrys, but here, in france a lot importers propose this species "wild".

 

[Mike Wise]

The Rotstrich Apistogramma is a form/population of A. hongsloi that occurs in the wild. It is not the holotype form (based on the original description, the type form has no red color at all!). The fish in the photo however shows more red than the wild Rotstrich - especially on the face. Wild Rotstrich that I have seen do not show red on the face, only yellow. In the past, the other hongsloi forms with red on the face were mixed with the Rotstrich form. I imagine that the fish could be escapees from a fish farm, but it is not likely. Such highly colored specimens are usually the first to be eaten by predators. They are just too visible. Natural selection usually removes such fish.