Re: [Killietalk] lampeyes

[<radiata_5 at fuse_net>]

Thanks a lot for your input.  I will check for the stripes.

Al W.-
--- lee Van Hyfte <littleleeper23 at hotmail_com> wrote: 
> Hello All,
> 
> I have most often seen Aply. normani at the pet shops.   Oddly enough I see 
> them at PETCO.  They will on occasion bring in a poropanchax luxophthalmus 
> type.
> 
> I must warn against presuming these are LUX.  Taxonomists have a hell of a 
> time telling the individual species apart.   3 species I have kept were 
> nearly identical in appearances.   Scheeli, Luxophthalmus, and 
> stigmatopygus.  (only verifiable via their collection points!!!) Put them in 
> a tank together and you would be hard pressed to separate out the males let 
> alone the females.  Hannerzi is supposed to have a fair bit of patterning in 
> the fins. Which may be the only distinguishing characteristic.  I have only 
> seen a couple of different locations of the LUX types.  So it would be 
> difficult to assume that HAN is the only sp./subsp. that maintains a pattern 
> in the fins.
> 
> Congopanchax brichardi and myersi both have nearly identical appearances 
> too.  Although at 1 inch it is unlikely these would be the species.  Both 
> are not only very small but also rare and difficult to even keep alive.
> 
> If it is a LUX type you should see to very distinct lines of electric blue 
> or blue green.  One running along the length of the body just below the 
> dorsal surface and the other running right along the ventral surface as I 
> recall stopping just short of the abdomen itself.
> 
> God Bless, Lee Van hyfte <><
> 
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