Identifying Apistogramma Females

[BethK]

Not bragging and never took credit, poster's post was uncalled for but anyway..................

Look at that video, pink gourami are also known as kissing gourami's and it looks like a kissing gourami in that video too

 

[ian]

lets keep it civil people.

 

[jpeterson]

FIGHT!

 

[hexy]

Hi, thank you Thank you all for your contributions and sorry to cause some friction! I have managed to get a better mode from my camera and taken a few more pictures where hopefully they are not so stressed... (might be because there is a big agassizi male in there who doesnt know if they are cacs or agassizi or bitaenti's)

Hopefully someone can identify better with these:

Fish 1
http/i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae304/hexyfish/IMG_0414.jpg
http/i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae304/hexyfish/IMG_0413.jpg
http/i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae304/hexyfish/IMG_0410.jpg

Fish 2
http/i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae304/hexyfish/IMG_0405.jpg
http/i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae304/hexyfish/IMG_0404.jpg

Fish 3
http/i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae304/hexyfish/IMG_0409.jpg

And another from my other tank to throw into the works Fish 4:
http/i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae304/hexyfish/IMG_0399.jpg
http/i982.photobucket.com/albums/ae304/hexyfish/IMG_0398.jpg

 

[elisew]

Ignore the friction, I do

They still look very pale to me but I stand by my opinion given above
Fish 4 looks like my Viejita female.

 

[StoopidFish]

Fish 4 is certainly different to the rest, could be Veijita.

And i still have my bets on 1-3 being Cacatouides. Especially the yellowing one, BUT, the yellowing in Cacatuoides is supposedly mating colours, so unless you have a Cacatouides male in the tank, she may not be a Cacatouides.

 

[Curiosity101]

Apparently true viejitas are very very rare in the hobby. Some people have rumoured they may not even actually exist. So it's more likely A. macmasteri... than viejita.
What size is fish number 4? Also what colour eye does it have?

I'd guess fish 2 is a female agazzi, same as fish 3

And I'd guess fish 2 is a cockatoo female, sure it's a cockatoo but a bit unsure about gender...yellowing and black stripes say female to me.

I did sit and um n ah for quite awhile over 2+3 though... they may well be cockatoo's, or I may well be completely wrong! lol.