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Apistogramma are dwarf cichlids with adults reaching between 2 and 8 cm (0.8–3.1 in) in standard length depending on exact species. [1] [2] Most species are strongly sexually dimorphic, with males generally larger than females and possessing different color patterns than the females (which at least when breeding are most frequently yellow with blackish markings); in a few species this ...
This dwarf cichlid is found in the Orinoco basin in South America: along the middle Orinoco River, in the Vichada River drainage and the middle Meta River. [1] They typically live in small, slow-moving spring-fed streams that receive plenty of sunlight, have a pH below 5 and a temperature between 26–28 °C (79–82 °F), [3] but can thrive at pH 5.5–7 and 23–29 °C (73–84 °F).
Breeding. Female with newly free-swimming fry. The female places her eggs inside the roof of a cavity [2] or underneath a leaf. She takes care of the eggs by herself, [2] while the male guards the territory. The eggs are salmon colored. One of the more interesting traits of Apistogramma cacatuoides is that of "sneaker" males.
Apistogramma panduro (A-183), also commonly referred to as Apistogramma pandurini, [2] is a small species of cichlid freshwater fish from the Amazon river basin in Peru. [3] It is closely related to A. nijsseni, so much so that they are placed in the A. nijessni species group. Some common names for A. panduro are blue panda apisto, and Panduros ...
Apistogramma trifasciata. Apistogramma trifasciata, also known as three-striped dwarf cichlid is a species of fish from the ‘Arroyo Chagalalina’ in Paraguay extending towards the rio Guaporé drainage in the southern Amazon basin though the connected rio Paraguay watershed in Brazil and Paraguay and on as far as the middle Paraná basin in ...
Apistogramma nijsseni is a species of cichlid fish, endemic to highly restricted local black water habitats in the Quebrada Carahuayte, a small stream in the Ucayali River drainage, southern Peru. [ 1][ 3] The male reaches a maximum length of 8 cm (3 in), the female remaining somewhat smaller. Apistogramma brooding females assume a bright ...
Apistogramma agassizii. Apistogramma agassizii, commonly known as Agassiz's dwarf cichlid, is a species of cichlid found in the Marañón and Ucayali River in Peru, some tributaries of the Amazon River, as well as downstream to the estuary in the Atlantic. [ 2] It is named after the Swiss-American zoologist and geologist Louis Agassiz (1807 ...
Apistogramma macmasteri is a dwarf cichlid in the tribe Geophagini, one of the tribes of the subfamily of American cichlids, the Cichlinae. [1] It is a freshwater fish that lives in the rivers Guaytiquía and Metica in the Meta River system. The Meta river system is a part of the Orinoco basin in Colombia. They live in areas with soft sandy ...